World Health Organization

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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, 21 Feb. 1999, 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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1851: An international effort to defeat disease,...

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1851

An international effort to defeat disease, suggested by the success of smallpox vaccination, began at a conference in Paris this year.
Cartwright, Frederick F., and Michael Biddis. Disease and History. 2nd ed., Sutton, 2000.
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22 July 1946: The World Health Organization came into ...

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22 July 1946

The World Health Organization came into being.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.

22 July 1946: The World Health Organization came into ...

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22 July 1946

The World Health Organization came into being.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.

1953: John Bowlby published his guilt-inducing...

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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.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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1955: The World Health Organization took over responsibility...

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1955

The World Health Organization took over responsibility for the International Classification of Diseases.
Daston, Lorraine. “Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it”. London Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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1978: The World Health Organization set up a Task...

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1978

The World Health Organization set up a Task Force on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infertility.
Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.
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8 May 1980: The World Health Organization's Resolution...

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8 May 1980

The World Health Organization 's Resolution 33.3 recorded the global eradication of smallpox (announced the previous December).
Pennington, Hugh. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 5 Sept. 2002, pp. 32-3.
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1993: The World Health Organization licensed two...

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1993

The World Health Organization licensed two new injectable contraceptives: Cyclofem and Mesigyna.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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3 January 1994: The World Health Organization reported that...

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3 January 1994

The World Health Organization reported that there were more than one million AIDS cases around the world.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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