Article ID: CBB001220582

Die Rockefeller Foundation und ihr Engagement bei einer Neuorientierung von Medizin und Public Health in Deutschland in den 1950er Jahren (2010)

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Schleiermacher, Sabine (Author)


Medizinhistorisches Journal
Volume: 45
Pages: 43--65


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Medizin und Gesellschaft in Westdeutschland 1945--1970”
Language: German

The Rockefeller Foundation invested substantial funds into promoting the development of public health as a discipline and a re-orientation of medical training in West Germany to support the democratization of German society. Not limiting itself to the simple provision of literature, the Foundation pursued a two-pronged strategy. Firstly, the Foundation organized a program for German university physicians and public health officers to visit various universities and teaching hospitals in the USA and Canada. A second aim was to establish training institutes for postgraduate physicians. However, rather than simply imposing the US model, the Foundation intended to adapt it to the German context, in the form of a postgraduate course for physicians that integrated practical experience with a university setting. My research to date shows that the Foundation's activities did not meet with much enthusiasm from German medical professionals. Intellectual, cultural, cognitive and political differences impaired constructive collaboration between the Foundation's staff and local practitioners and academics.

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Authors & Contributors
Elsbeth Bösl
Zhang, Daqing
Wolfe, Audra Jayne
Vargha, Dora
Valone, David A.
Unger, Corinna R.
Concepts
Public health
Cold War
Medicine
Cross-national interaction
Vaccines; vaccination
Poliomyelitis
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
Places
West Germany
East Germany
United States
Sri Lanka
Netherlands
Hungary
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
UNICEF
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
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