Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme
Kenneth Warren was a powerful figure in twentieth century medicine whose work transformed public health policy and tropical medicine, and who left a profound legacy in global health thinking. A prolific writer and researcher, Warren was respected for
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Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond CONRAD KEATING
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Conrad Keating
Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond
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Conrad Keating The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine University of Oxford Oxford UK
ISSN 2365-0613 Springer Biographies ISBN 978-3-319-50145-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50147-5
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Foreword
This is the story of the life and work of a remarkable clinical scientist, Kenneth Warren. After describing Warren’s early successes in medical research, mainly in the fields of parasitology, the story goes on to discuss his major achievement, which was the founding of a programme called the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind. He achieved this by approaching leaders of research groups in several parts of the world, the work of which focused on diseases of the tropical belt. With the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, he offered financial help to each of the groups, and his only requirement was that they would meet together at least once each year to present their work to each other. In this way he was able to evolve valuable partnerships between workers in different but rela
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