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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811123503321

Titolo

Biomedicine in the twentieth century : practices, policies, and politics / / Caroline Hannaway, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press, c2008

ISBN

6611733361

1-281-73336-9

9786611733360

1-60750-308-5

600-00-0356-0

1-4337-1137-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Collana

Biomedical and health research ; ; v. 72

Altri autori (Persone)

HannawayCaroline <1943->

Disciplina

610.72073

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

". . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twentieth century"--p. ix.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Contents; Preface; Inventing the Office of NIH History; The Socialization of Research and the Transformation of the Academy; Disease Categories and Scientific Disciplines: Reorganizing the NIH Intramural Program, 1945-1960; The National Institute of Mental Health and Mental Health Policy, 1949-1965; Radium and the Origins of the National Cancer Institute; Transplant Nation: The NIH and the Politics of Heart Transplantation in the 1960's; Mobilizing Biomedicine: Virus Research Between Lay Health Organizations and the U.S. Federal Government, 1935-1955

Genes, Disease, and Patents: Cash and Community in Biomedicine The Critical Role of Laboratory Instruments at the Rockefeller: Biomedicine as Biotechnology; Clinical Research in Postwar Britain: The Role of the Medical Research Council; Towards a History of "The Vaccine Innovation System," 1950-2000; Molecularization and Infectious Disease Research: The Case of Synthetic Antimalarial Drugs in the Twentieth Century; Scientific Discoveries: An Institutionalist and Path-Dependent



Perspective; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised of essays by noted historians and social scientists that offer insights on a range of subjects that should be a significant stimulus for further historical investigation. It details the NIH's practices, policies and politics on a variety of fronts, including the development of...