Josep L. Barona is Professor of the History of Science and leader of the research group Sanhisoc/Health in Society at the Universidad de Valencia, Spain.

• Contents;Acknowledgments;List of Abbreviations;Health policies in the twentieth century: a transnational issue;Why transnational history?;Circulating science and technology;The civilising process and homo hygienicus;Historical origins of health policies;From public health to social medicine: the political dimension of disease;The birth of public health;International diplomacy and national institutions;The Office Internationale d’Hygiène Publique and the League of Nations;Networks of experts: national policies and transnational actors;Health and international diplomacy;Creating expert knowledge;Public health experts as transnational actors;the relevance of international organisations;Transnational actors guiding health research and health policies: the historical context of national health institutes;Legitimising arguments: moral values, health, and economy;Research for the nation: national institutes of hygiene;Bacteriology, a cornerstone for colonial medicine;Origins and impact of the Pasteur Institute;Robert Koch-Institut in Berlin;London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and national research institutes in Britain;Social medicine and sanitary policies in Hungary;National Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Poland;Central Institute of Hygiene in Belgrade;Prague as a social hygiene laboratory;Alfonso XIII National Institute of Hygiene in Madrid;Public health institutes in Scandinavia;Instructing the experts: national schools of public health;Teaching the experts: more than a national issue;National schools and public health experts;The international model: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore;Teaching hygiene in European nations: France, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Spain;International initiatives: courses in London and Paris;The great failure: École Internationale d’Hautes Études d’Hygiène [International School of Advanced Studies in Hygiene];Final comments and conclusions;Sources and bibliography;Index