World Health Organization

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Iris Murdoch
In Brussels, while working for UNRRA , IM first encountered existentialist philosophy, which was to have a profound effect on her life and work. She met Sartre in 1945. At a slightly later stage...
Employer Iris Murdoch
IM was an administrative officer in London for the body which became the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), set up to deal with refugees displaced by the war.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24.
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Employer Iris Murdoch
IM left London for Brussels en route for Innsbruck in Austria; her UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) job had finally taken her abroad to work with refugees in displaced-person camps.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Employer Iris Murdoch
IM 's resignation from the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) took effect.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Literary Setting Zoë Fairbairns
The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets , who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme when both were...
Textual Features Kathleen E. Innes
In this work KEI catalogues some of the projects sponsored by the Health Organization of the League of Nations (which was later, on 22 July 1946, absorbed into the World Health Organization ). Especially she...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
AO collaborated with Susanne Houd , for the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, on Helpers in Childbirth: Midwifery Today.
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Timeline

1851
An international effort to defeat disease, suggested by the success of smallpox vaccination, began at a conference in Paris this year.
22 July 1946
The World Health Organization came into being.
22 July 1946
The World Health Organization came into being.
1953
John Bowlby published his guilt-inducing Child Care and the Growth of Love, which maintains that early development is dependent on the constant presence of a single, irreplaceable mother-figure.
1955
The World Health Organization took over responsibility for the International Classification of Diseases.
1978
The World Health Organization set up a Task Force on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infertility.
8 May 1980
The World Health Organization 's Resolution 33.3 recorded the global eradication of smallpox (announced the previous December).
1993
The World Health Organization licensed two new injectable contraceptives: Cyclofem and Mesigyna.
3 January 1994
The World Health Organization reported that there were more than one million AIDS cases around the world.