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Volume 350:627-629 February 5, 2004 Number 6
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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War

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Edited by William H. Schneider. 251 pp. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002. $44.95. ISBN 0-253-34151-5.

This book originated in a workshop held at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, in July 1999. The purpose of the workshop was to study comparatively "the development of biomedicine outside the United States in the first part of the twentieth century, with a focus on the role played by the Rockefeller Foundation." For this purpose, the organizers, William H. Schneider, Giuliana Gemelli, and Jean-François Picard, brought together a panel of international scholars, all writing from the point of view of the social history of science and medicine.

The book consists of an introduction and a long . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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