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

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ISBN:

9780253109606

9780253341518

Title:

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

Author:

Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-

Publication Information:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages).

Series:

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

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.

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Corporate Subject:

Rockefeller Foundation.

Subject Term:

Medicine -- Research -- Endowments.

Biomedical Research -- economics.

Research Support as Topic -- history.

History, 20th Century.

Added Author:

Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2002

Publication Information:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002.

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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 with local cultural and political imperatives that reshaped or weakened its objectives. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine offers important lessons regarding the situations in which international philanthropy is likely to be most effective.

Author Notes

William H. Schneider is Professor of History and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at Indiana University and Purdue University, Indianapolis. Prof. Schneider's research interests cover French and African history, as well as the history of science and medicine. A former Fulbright scholar, Prof. Schneider is the author of An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, 1870-1900 and Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in 20th Century France. He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies.