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

Published Amsterdam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) : illustrations Series Biomedical and health research ; v. 72 Biomedical and health research ; v. 72. Contents Inventing the Office of NIH History / Caroline Hannaway -- The socialization of research and the transformation of the academy / Richard C. Lewontin -- Disease categories and scientific disciplines: reorganizing the NIH Intramural Program, 1945-1960 / Buhm Soon Park -- The National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, 1949-1965 / Gerald N. Grob -- Radium and the origins of the National Cancer Institute / David Cantor -- Transplant nation: the NIH and the politics of heart transplantation in the 1960s / Susan E. Lederer -- Mobilizing biomedicine: virus research between lay health organizations and the U.S. federal government, 1935-1955 / Angela N.H. Creager -- Genes, disease, and patents: cash and community in biomedicine / Daniel J. Kevles -- The critical role of laboratory instruments at the Rockefeller: biomedicine as biotechnology / Darwin H. Stapleton -- Clinical research in postwar Britain: the role of the Medical Research Council / Carsten Timmermann -- Towards a history of "The Vaccine Innovation System," 1950-2000 / Stuart Blume -- Molecularization and infectious disease research: the case of synthetic antimalarial drugs in the twentieth century / Leo Slater -- Scientific discoveries: an institutionalist and path-dependent perspective / J. Rogers Hollingsworth Summary 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 Notes "In honor of Victoria A. Harden, founding director of the Office of NIH History (1986-2006)"--Page v ". . . 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"--Page ix Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National Institutes of Health (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses National Cancer Institute (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses SUBJECT National Cancer Institute (U.S.) fast National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) fast National Institutes of Health (U.S.) fast Subject Medicine -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses Biology -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses Biomedical Research History, 20th Century Public Policy HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. Biology -- Research Medicine -- Research SUBJECT United States Subject United States Genre/Form Festschriften Conference papers and proceedings History Festschriften. Form Electronic book Author Hannaway, Caroline, 1943- Harden, Victoria Angela IOS Press. ISBN 9781433711374 1433711370 9781607503088 1607503085

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