{"product_id":"for-your-health-and-ours-sara-silverstein-9780197864371","title":"For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health","description":"At the end of the First World War, a group of eastern European physicians built a case that politics begins with the body and with health. Their arguments, and above all their actions in supporting new states by creating local healthcare, made the notion of health as a fundamental human right possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA democratic country is responsible for the health of its people, which means addressing social, economic, and environmental problems as well as disease narrowly considered. These doctors began from this premise, and they understood that disease and efforts to improve health did not stop at borders. They came from a certain milieu, in a certain place, but their experiments quickly became global. From the edges of Europe, these reformers sought colleagues in other post-imperial spaces, in other agrarian regions, and amongst others fighting for health and a political voice. They built a global health network based on principles of social democracy, social medicine, and anti-imperialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir story, from the Balkans, to China, to Tennessee, is the history of forgotten origins of global health. The pioneering work of a close-knit group became projects and institutions. Their values became the language of the World Health Organization and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Like all human rights, the right to health was aspirational. But it was more than rhetorical. The interwar eastern European health experts and their global network practiced health as a right locally, nationally, and internationally. The Cold War broke the will for a global right to health, but their legacy lived on in initiatives from the Global South and in the hopes of a younger generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on material from archives in seven countries, \u003cem\u003eFor Your Health and Ours\u003c\/em\u003e is a wide-ranging, timely, and innovative new history of the foundations of global health and practices of human rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Silverstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197864376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197864371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sara Silverstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097356280063,"sku":"9780197864371","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-your-health-and-ours-sara-silverstein-9780197864371","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}