anne-emanuelle birn is Professor and Canada Research Chair in International Health at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the history of public health in Latin America and the history and politics of international health. She has published widely in North American, Latin American, African, and European journals, and is the author of Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (University of Rochester Press, 2006); Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009) with Yogan Pillay and Timothy Holtz; and the forthcoming Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (Rutgers University Press) with coeditor Theodore Brown. Her current work examines the history of the international child health and rights movement from the perspective of Uruguay.
gilberto hochman is Researcher and Professor of History of Science and Health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He...