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

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

List of contents

Introduction: Medical Cultures
Medical Revolutions
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Culture of British Medicine
The Organization and Ethos of Edinburgh Medicine
Edinburgh, London, and North America
The Departments of Surgery and Medicine
A Hospital Laboratory
A University Laboratory in a Hospital
Bench and Bedside
Conclusion: Modern Times

About the author

Christopher Lawrence

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Lawrence
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9781580464567
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-456-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics