More, Ellen S. (Author)
TidePool Press
Physical Details: 688 pp.
Language: English
Since its inception fifty years ago, the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, has kept true to its original mission of training family doctors while defying the odds in becoming one of the nation's leading centers of biomedical research. Attracting gifted faculty and students with a humane interest in medicine, the pairing has been robust, but not easily achieved. Ellen More's Beating the Odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History is that rare institutional history which is candid, engaging, thought provoking and, rarest of all, very readable. Writing from the inside, More demonstrates unusual objectivity and frankness which make Beating the Odds an important book for anyone interested in the challenges of shaping a public institution in an administratively complex, technologically dynamic, and intensely competitive environment...
...MoreReview Antonio M. Gotto (2018) Review of "Beating the Odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School A History, 1962–2012". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 721-722).
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