| Abstrakt: |
In his book, entitled Utopia and published in 1516, Sir Thomas More described an imaginary island with a perfect social and political system, where a fair monarch rules over nice, honest, and well-tempered people. This "place of nowhere," from the Greek word sou, (not), and topos, (a place), would be heaven on earth; unfortunately, it does not exist. However, throughout history, some heretofore only imagined utopias have become realities: Who, at the beginning of the 20th century, would have believed in smallpox eradication? A goal of a utopia can be mobilizing, especially for visionaries, and the founding fathers of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1946, were realistic yet visionary, scientific yet humanistic, people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
