Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine
Subtitle: international initiatives from World War I to the Cold War
By: edited by William H. Schneider.
Contributors: Schneider, William H. 1945-
Series: Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Rockefeller Foundation.; Medicine -- Research -- Endowments.
Description: "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. The cases reveal the varied success of the country-level programs in meeting the Foundation's goals. Despite the Foundation's primary emphasis on strengthening established medical programs, major medical advances were achieved in several places without a notable history of medical research. In other circumstances, however, the Rockefeller Foundation was confronted with local cultural and political imperatives that reshaped or weakened its objectives. The book offers important lessons regarding the situations in which international philanthropy is likely to be most effective."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The men who followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical divisions, 1919-1951 / William H. Schneider; title: Irish medicine's appeal to Rockefeller / J.B. Lyons; title: Make a peak on the plain: the Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged project / Gábor Palló; title: From the art of medicine to biomedical science in France: modernization of Americanization? / Jean-François Picard and William H. Schneider; title: Passing through the eye of the needle: American philanthropy and Soviet medical research in the 1920s / Margaret A. Trott; title: The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's medical programs in China / Qiusha Ma; title: A central periphery: the Naples Stazione Zoologica as an "attractor" / Giuliana Gemelli; title: "Out of the ghetto": the Rockefeller Foundation and German medicine after the Second World War / Paul Weindling; title: The Nuffield Foundation and medical genetics in the United Kingdom / Doris T. Zallen.