| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies |
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Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
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| 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 |
| 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 w |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rockefeller Foundation
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| SUBJECT |
Rockefeller Foundation |
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Rockefeller Foundation fast |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Research -- Endowments
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MEDICAL -- Research.
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Medicine -- Research -- Endowments
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-
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| ISBN |
0253109604 |
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9780253109606 |
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9780253341518 |
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0253341515 |
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