Download or read book World Health Organization written by Gian Luca Burci and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1946, as an essential step in the construction of a postwar system of international cooperation. The authors, a former legal counsel of WHO and senior official of WHO's legal office, have written a thorough and systematic review of WHO in its changing historical and political context, aiming in particular at practitioners and scholars without a specific medical background.