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Es tan abundant i exhaustiva la bibliografia feminista internacional i son tan plurals els estudis des de la perspectiva de genere que ha produit la historiografia durant les darreres decades que la opinio publica es conscient de les raons socials, culturals i ideologiques que han contribuit a construir els models de genere i un determinat arquetip de la dona i de la naturalesa femenina en la nostra tradicio occidental. El present article no vol ser una sintesi documentada ni erudita dels factors que han propiciat historicament l’exclusio de les dones de la esfera publica i especialment de les practiques cientifiques. Simplement vol aportar una reflexio personal des de la historia cultural …

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The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and the League of Nations (LON) played a fundamental role in stabilization policies during the interwar period. Public health became essential in this context due to the immediate consequences of the war, the post-war economic crisis and the Great Depression. RF and LON became the cornerstone of international action in several fields: epidemics, famine, malnutrition, infectious diseases, infant mortality, drug abuse, biological and dietary standard-setting, epidemiological records, public health policies and professionalization. In the shaping international health expertise, LON and RF collaboration was extremely important, in terms of determining goals and p…