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Abstract
Publications on the circulation and exchange of ideas for health policies in the 19th and 20th centuries have multiplied over the past two decades. If these studies take a critical look at colonial, international, and global medicine and health, they analyze the implementation of health practices even in Western medicine and shed light on the process by which it has become dominant in almost - all the countries of the world. This special issue aims to enrich this historiography by highlighting three often neglected themes: multinational companies, countries that export practices that do not belong to the North Atlantic sphere, and alternative medicines. The special issue shows that the initiatives associated with it, without benefiting from strong financial or political support at the international level, have also been able to spread over the long term, sometimes positioning themselves in competition, sometimes in collaboration with large health organizations.
Special issue editors
- Yi-Tang Ling
- Anne-Emanuelle Birn, The Collective for the Political Determinants of Health