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How NATO Influenced International Governance in Hazardous Waste by Borowy, Iris

“…Increasing production and wealth in industrialized countries led to an increase in waste production, part of which was clearly harmful to human and non-human…”
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Medical waste: the dark side of healthcare by Borowy, Iris

“…Abstract Hospitals and other health facilities generate an ever-increasing amount of waste, approximately 15% of which may be infectious, toxic, or…”
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Sustainable health: the need for new developmental models by Borowy, Iris

“…In 2015, the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will probably be replaced by 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Although only one SDG names health…”
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Editorial Introduction to the Special Collection ‘Development of Waste – Development as Waste’ by Borowy, Iris

“…This Editorial introduces the special collection ‘Development of Waste – Development as Waste’…”
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Hazardous Waste: The Beginning of International Organizations Addressing a Growing Global Challenge in the 1970s by Borowy, Iris

“…Hazardous waste began gaining public attention in industrialized countries in the 1970s, partly as a result of several scandals involving former waste sites…”
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Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste by Borowy, Iris, Pal, Viktor, Zimring, Carl

“…Throughout human history, people have always produced waste, but during the last century, this has shown explosive growth. Globally, a combination of rising…”
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East German medical aid to Nicaragua: the politics of solidarity between biomedicine and primary health care by Borowy, Iris

“…Between 1979 and 1989 the government of the German Democratic Republic provided health assistance to Sandinista Nicaragua. After initial relief aid, the…”
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Degrowth and public health in Cuba: lessons from the past? by Borowy, Iris

“…After the collapse of the Communist Bloc in the 1990s Cuba experienced a severe economic crisis. In its drastic reduction in fuels, its negative economic…”
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Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccine: The Incredible Success Versus the Incredible Failure by Borowy, Iris

“…COVID-19 has been the deadliest pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918–1920. While people in the twentieth century had to wait for the pandemic to run its…”
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Primary Health Care and Foreign Aid: A Tale of Two Germanys by Bruchhausen, Walter, Borowy, Iris

“…Abstract The Declaration of Alma-Ata remains one of the momentous documents of public health. Its origins lie both in postwar efforts to improve population…”
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Road Traffic Injuries: Social Change and Development by Borowy, Iris

“…In the course of the twentieth century road traffic injuries (RTIs) became a major public health burden. RTI deaths first increased in high-income countries…”
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Science and Technology for Development in a Postcolonial World. Negotiations at the United Nations, 1960–1980 by Borowy, Iris

“…Ever since the early 1960s, the United Nations has acknowledged science and technology as integral components of developmental policies. While this connection…”
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Medical Aid, Repression, and International Relations: The East German Hospital at Metema by BOROWY, IRIS

“…Between 1984 and 1988, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) built a hospital in a remote part of Ethiopia, close to the Sudanese border. The project evolved in…”
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Degrowth and public health in Cuba: lessons from the past?: Degrowth: From Theory to Practice by BOROWY, Iris

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A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems by Munisov (Camille), Zarkamol, Borowy, Iris

“…This study examines contemporary poems on the Aral Sea crisis. Labelling them Russophone, the authors argue that the Russian language holds its status of…”
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Josep L. Barona. The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920-1945. London: Pickering & Chatto; 2015 by Borowy, Iris

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Similar but different: Health and economic crisis in 1990s Cuba and Russia by Borowy, Iris

“…The collapse of the Soviet Bloc caused devastating economic crises in Cuba and in the Russian Federation but triggered remarkably different public health…”
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Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity by Borowy, Iris

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Shifting Between Biomedical and Social Medicine: International Health Organizations in the 20th Century by Borowy, Iris

“…International health organizations emerged in the 19th century as a means to reconcile the needs of a world of increasing trade and mobility with the…”
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Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University), 2014, 376 pp by Borowy, Iris

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