Description |
1 online resource (ix, 373 pages) |
Series |
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 |
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Rochester studies in medical history. 1526-2715
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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 |
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Rockefeller Foundation -- History
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University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine -- History
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Rockefeller Foundation |
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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |
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University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine |
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Rockefeller Foundation fast |
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University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine fast |
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Medicine -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
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Medical colleges -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
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Medical education -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
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Medical education -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Endowments -- History -- 20th century
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Medicine -- Research -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
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Medicine -- Research -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Endowments -- History -- 20th century
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Medical laboratories -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- History -- 20th century
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Hospitals, University -- history
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Schools, Medical -- history
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Foundations -- history
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History, 20th Century
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Laboratories, Hospital -- history
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Social Change -- history
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MEDICAL -- Education & Training.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Medical colleges
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Medical education
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Medical education -- Endowments
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Medical laboratories
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Medicine
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Medicine -- Research
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Medicine -- Research -- Endowments
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SUBJECT |
Scotland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012606 |
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Scotland -- Edinburgh
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781580466448 |
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1580466443 |
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