Book ID: CBB361418066

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country (2013)

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Lawrence, Christopher (Author)


Boydell & Brewer


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 384
Language: English

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, was not 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 was part of an anxiety about a wholesale invasion by American culture that was seen to be destroying Edinburgh's cherished values and traditions. These latter in turn were seen to stem from a distinct Scottish way of life. This book examines this culture clash through attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

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Authors & Contributors
Snodgrass, S. Robert
Jong-wook Hong
Heng, Wen
Gallagher, Mark
Mbali, Mandisa
Andreeva, Anna
Concepts
Medicine and society
Medicine and culture
Funding and finance
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
Public health
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Heian period (Japan, 794-1185)
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
Japan
China
Edinburgh
United States
Ireland
Great Britain
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Scottish Union of Mental Patients
China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Harvard University
China Medical Board
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