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

Authors: Christopher Lawrence
ISBN-13: 9781580461955, ISBN-10: 1580461956
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Christopher Lawrence

Christopher Lawrence is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.

Book Synopsis

This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

1	Introduction : medical cultures	1
2	Medical revolutions	11
3	The rockefeller foundation and the culture of British medicine	25
4	The organization and ethos of Edinburgh medicine	63
5	Edinburgh, London, and North America	93
6	The departments of surgery and medicine	140
7	A hospital laboratory	186
8	A university laboratory in a hospital	225
9	Bench and bedside	269
10	Conclusion : modern times	326