Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War

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. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research programs, major advances were achieved in several countries that did not have a notable history in medical research. In other circumstances,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253341515
• ISBN13: 9780253341518
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"