1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911078648303321

Titolo

Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress. December 9, 1840. Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : [publisher not identified], , 1840

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (541 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

House document / 26th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 2

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 382]

Altri autori (Persone)

Van BurenMartin <1782-1862.>

Soggetti

Arsenals

Armories

Assimilation (Sociology)

Boundaries

Armed Forces - Appropriations and expenditures

Executive departments - Reorganization

Administrative agencies - Reorganization

Revenue

Factory and trade waste

Indians of North America - Government relations

International law

Franking privilege

Indian Removal, 1813-1903

Indian Removal, 1813-1903, in art

Indians of North America - Wars

Buildings - Repair and reconstruction

International relations

Military supplies

Construction, Military

Construction industry - Military aspects

Military pay

Military pensions

Strategy

Missions

Military readiness

Sea control

Postal rates



Postal service

Debts, Public

Quality of life

School management and organization

School supervisors

Slave trade

Presidents - United States

War casualties

Warships

Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842

Seminole Indians - Wars

Disabled veterans

Indians

Soldiers

Financial statements

Legislative materials.

United States Territorial expansion

Canada

France

Great Britain

Portugal

Spain

United States

Western frontier

United States Armed Forces Appropriations and expenditures

Northeast boundary of the United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Report of the Secretary of War, p. 19.

Report of the Major General Commanding the Army, p. 31.

A Bill To Render the Army Effective in Officers, and for Other Purposes, p. 32.

Report from the Ordnance Department, p. 55.

Report of the Quartermaster General, p. 87.

Report from the Chief Engineer, p. 99.

Report of the Chief Topographical Engineer, p. 171.

Report of the Paymaster General, p. 190.

Report of the Surgeon General, p. 194.

Report of the Commissary General of Clothing, &c., p. 206.

Report of the Commissary General of Subsistence, p. 225.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, p. 228.

Report of the Commissioner of Pensions, p. 393.

Report of the officer in charge of the Bounty Land Office, p. 401.

Report of the Secretary of the Navy, p. 403.

Schedule of papers, accompanying the report of the Secretary of Navy, p. 408.



Report from the Postmaster General, p. 475.

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FDLP item number not assigned.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911093593803321

Titolo

Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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