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Article: W.H.O. is Brock Chisholm?
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- Literary Review of Canada
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- June 1, 2008
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W.H.O. is Brock Chisholm? Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization and the Cold War John Farley University of British Columbia Press 246 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780774814768
Sometimes being there is just not good enough.
"That Canada, a country which prides itself on its support for the United Nations ... no longer remembers that one of its own became the first director general of one of the UN's most important agencies is a national disgrace."
Thus John Farley, a veteran historian of science and medicine at Dalhousie University, justifies his book-length account of Dr. Brock Chisholm's service in the early years of the World Health Organization. Fair enough in the sense that Chisholm ...