Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The First Steps, 1945-46 -- 2 Who Was Brock Chisholm? -- 3 The Interim Commission, 1946-48: The Long Wait -- 4 The First World Health Assemblies: Into the Cold War -- 5 Money Matters -- 6 Politics Matter -- 7 Social Medicine and Its Decline -- 8 Tuberculosis: The Vaccine Controversy -- 9 The Penicillin Bullet: Syphilis and Yaws -- 10 Malaria and Famine -- 11 Nearly Torn Apart: The WHO and the Catholic Church -- 12 Only One Term -- 13 Retirement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.