Health, colonialism, and development: an interview with historian Randall Packard

ABSTRACT

Interview with Randall Packard, William H. Welch Professor of theHistory of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University and co-editor ofthe Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Speaking about his academiccareer, his activities as an editor, and his main works, Professor Packardaddresses the topics of health and disease in the history of Africa; therelation between disease eradication programs and the ideology ofdevelopment; the malaria eradication program; medicine, internationalhealth, and colonialism; academic production in the history ofmedicine in the Anglo-Saxon world; and the dynamics of scientificpublishing in the field of the history of medicine