Book ID: CBB000850366

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics (2008)

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Hannaway, Caroline C. (Editor)


IOS Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: x + 377 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Essays focusing mostly on US institutions, including the National Institute of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Cancer Institute. Contributors: Caroline Hannaway, Richard C. Lewontin, Buhm Soon Park, Gerald N. Grob, David Cantor, Susan E. Lederer, Angela N. H. Creager, Daniel J. Kevles, Darwin H. Stapleton, Carsten Timmermann, Stuart Blume, Leo Slater, and J. Rogers Hollingsworth.


Reviewed By

Review Kroker, Kenton (2009) Review of "Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 682). unapi

Review Nicolson, Malcolm (2009) Review of "Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics". Social History of Medicine (p. 193). unapi

Review Kirk, Robert G. W. (2010) Review of "Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics". Medical History (p. 123). unapi

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Stark, Laura
Harden, Victoria A.
Aviles, Natalie B.
Trujillo-Pagan, Nicole Elise
Steinberg, David A.
Schneider, William H.
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Ethics
Cancer; tumors
Medicine and law
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Puerto Rico
China
Great Britain
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Baltimore City Hospitals
Rockefeller Foundation
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