Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Lawrence, Christopher, 1947- author.

Title Rockefeller money, the laboratory, and medicine in Edinburgh, 1919-1930 : new science in an old country / Christopher Lawrence
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 373 pages)
Series Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Rochester studies in medical history. 1526-2715
Contents Introduction: medical cultures -- Medical revolutions -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the culture of British medicine -- The organization and ethos of Edinburgh medicine -- Edinburgh, London, and North America -- The departments of surgery and medicine -- A hospital laboratory -- A university laboratory in a hospital -- Bench and bedside -- Conclusion: modern times
Summary 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, was not always welcomed. In Britain many old hospitals and medical schools stood by their educational and healing traditions. Further, American ideals were often seen as part of a larger transatlantic threat to British ways of life. In Edinburgh, targeted by reformers as an important center for training doctors for the empire, reform was resisted on the grounds that the city had sound methods of education and patient care matured over time. This resistance stemmed from anxiety about a wholesale invasion by American culture that was seen to be destroying Edinburgh's cherished values and traditions. This book examines this culture clash through attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s. Christopher Lawrence is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rockefeller Foundation -- History
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine -- History
SUBJECT Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine
Rockefeller Foundation fast
University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine fast
Subject Medicine -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
Medical colleges -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
Medical education -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
Medical education -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Endowments -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Research -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Research -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Endowments -- History -- 20th century
Medical laboratories -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
Hospitals, University -- history
Schools, Medical -- history
Foundations -- history
History, 20th Century
Laboratories, Hospital -- history
Social Change -- history
MEDICAL -- Education & Training.
MEDICAL -- History.
Medical colleges
Medical education
Medical education -- Endowments
Medical laboratories
Medicine
Medicine -- Research
Medicine -- Research -- Endowments
SUBJECT Scotland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012606
Subject Scotland -- Edinburgh
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781580466448
1580466443