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subproject by Universität
Leipzig |
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“An “outside” look
on the Homo Europaeus” |
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“An
outside look on the Homo Europaeus: the WHO”
Klaas Dykmann,
post-doc researcher
This project aims at reviewing the imagined European as standard
patient, consumer (drugs) and medical doctor in the health policies
of the World Health Organisation between the 1950s and late 1970s.
In the first years of the organisation, the concept of “Western
medicine”, consisting of scientific medicine, the hospital
and the laboratory, and based on physicians as the guardians of
quality in health care, was predominant. In the 1960s and particularly
in the 1970s, this Western-focused concept was challenged by the
emergence of new independent countries in the so-called Third World
and the success of the barefoot doctors in rural China. Finally,
the tendencies to reemphasise traditional non-Western medicines
and to question the (European/Western) physician as the only institution
and the vertical approach of the World Health Organisation as not
filling the needs of developing nations led to the famous WHO declaration
of Alma Ata in 1978, where the ambitious goal “Health for
All in the Year 2000” was proclaimed.
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