Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930: (eBook)

New Science in an Old Country

Christopher Lawrence (Autor)

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2005
384 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-58046-644-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Rochester Studies in Medical History
• Reihe/Serie: Rochester Studies in Medical History
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• Schlagworte: American ideas • biochemistry • British ways of life • Christopher Lawrence • Culture Clash • Edinburgh medical world • history of medicine • Hospitals • Knowledge • Laboratory sciences • Practices • Reformers • Rockefeller Foundation • Twentieth century • University-based medical schools • University College London
• ISBN-10: 1-58046-644-3 / 1580466443
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-644-8 / 9781580466448