Biomedicine in the twentieth century [[electronic resource] ] : practices, policies, and politics / / Caroline Hannaway, editor

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.72073
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Research - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Altri autori: HannawayCaroline <1943->
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Biomedicine in the twentieth century
• ISBN: 6611733361; 1-281-73336-9; 9786611733360; 1-60750-308-5; 600-00-0356-0; 1-4337-1137-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782314303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Biomedical and health research ; ; v. 72.