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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455154203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-07190-4

9786612071904

0-253-10960-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneiderWilliam H <1945-> (William Howard)

Disciplina

610.28

610/.7/2

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - Endowments

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction; TWO The Men Who Followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions, 1919...1951; THREE Irish Medicine's Appeal to Rockefeller; FOUR Make a Peak on the Plain: The Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged Project; FIVE From the Art of Medicine to Biomedical Science in France: Modernization or Americanization?; SIX Passing through the Eye of the Needle: American Philanthropy and Soviet Medical Research in the 1920's; SEVEN The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's Medical Programs in China

EIGHT A Central Periphery: The Naples Stazione Zoologica as an Attractor NINE Out of the Ghetto: The Rockefeller Foundation and German Medicine after the Second World War; TEN The Nuffield Foundation and Medical Genetics in the United Kingdom; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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