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Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine : international initiatives from World War I to the Cold War / edited by William H. Schneider.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philanthropic and nonprofit studiesPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0253109604
  • 9780253109606
  • 9780253341518
  • 0253341515
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine.DDC classification:
  • 610/.7/2 21
LOC classification:
  • R853.R46 R63 2002eb
NLM classification:
  • 2002 O-386
  • W 20.5
Online resources:
Contents:
The men who followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical divisions, 1919-1951 / William H. Schneider -- Irish medicine's appeal to Rockefeller / J.B. Lyons -- Make a peak on the plain: the Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged project / Gábor Palló -- From the art of medicine to biomedical science in France: modernization of Americanization? / Jean-François Picard and William H. Schneider -- Passing through the eye of the needle: American philanthropy and Soviet medical research in the 1920s / Margaret A. Trott -- The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's medical programs in China / Qiusha Ma -- A central periphery: the Naples Stazione Zoologica as an "attractor" / Giuliana Gemelli -- "Out of the ghetto": the Rockefeller Foundation and German medicine after the Second World War / Paul Weindling -- The Nuffield Foundation and medical genetics in the United Kingdom / Doris T. Zallen.
Summary: The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research programs, major advances were achieved in several countries that did not have a notable history in medical research. In other circumstances, however, the Rockefeller Foundation was confronted w.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The men who followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical divisions, 1919-1951 / William H. Schneider -- Irish medicine's appeal to Rockefeller / J.B. Lyons -- Make a peak on the plain: the Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged project / Gábor Palló -- From the art of medicine to biomedical science in France: modernization of Americanization? / Jean-François Picard and William H. Schneider -- Passing through the eye of the needle: American philanthropy and Soviet medical research in the 1920s / Margaret A. Trott -- The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's medical programs in China / Qiusha Ma -- A central periphery: the Naples Stazione Zoologica as an "attractor" / Giuliana Gemelli -- "Out of the ghetto": the Rockefeller Foundation and German medicine after the Second World War / Paul Weindling -- The Nuffield Foundation and medical genetics in the United Kingdom / Doris T. Zallen.

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The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research programs, major advances were achieved in several countries that did not have a notable history in medical research. In other circumstances, however, the Rockefeller Foundation was confronted w.

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