Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:
Christopher Lawrence
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Paperback. This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s. Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations, 7 black and white. BIC Classification: 3JJG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s. In the first half of the twentieth century, reformers attempted to use the knowledge and practices of the laboratory sciences to radically transform medicine. Change was to be effected through medicine's major institutions; hospitals were to be turned into businesses and united to university-based medical schools. American ideas and money were major movers of these reforms. The Rockefeller Foundation supported these changes worldwide. reform, however, wasnot always welcomed. In Britain many old hospitals and medical schools stood ... Read more
This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s. In the first half of the twentieth century, reformers attempted to use the knowledge and practices of the laboratory sciences to radically transform medicine. Change was to be effected through medicine's major institutions; hospitals were to be turned into businesses and united to university-based medical schools. American ideas and money were major movers of these reforms. The Rockefeller Foundation supported these changes worldwide. reform, however, wasnot always welcomed. In Britain many old hospitals and medical schools stood ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464567
SKU
V9781580464567
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About Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
Reviews for Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:
A fascinating study of an equally fascinating phenomenon: the way that early twentieth-century clinical medicine grappled with the challenge of laboratory science.
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
It is always a pleasure reading the mature work, forcefully presented, of an experienced historian. . . . You don't have to be a historian of medicine to be inspired and embolded ... Read more
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
It is always a pleasure reading the mature work, forcefully presented, of an experienced historian. . . . You don't have to be a historian of medicine to be inspired and embolded ... Read more