Historical Perspectives on the Role of the MRC
Historical Perspectives on the Role of the MRC

Author: Joan Austoker

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This volume explores the role and accomplishments of the British Medical Research Council in the first half of the twentieth century. It reviews work undertaken by this important research body, as well as information on the organization's relationship with the Ministry of Health, the Colonial Office, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and industry and pharmaceutical companies. Internal influences such as the leadership of MRC secretaries are considered, while external forces which helped shape Council policy area covered in depth. The book will place the work of the MRC in a broad context, examining its impact both nationally and internationally, helping the reader to gain a complete understanding of this key institution.

Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Author: Laura L. Koppes

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1317824482

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This unique book is the first to contain a comprehensive history of industrial and organizational psychology, covering numerous topics in the discipline. The history presented offers various perspectives, including the contributions of individuals, organizations, and contextual or situational forces, as well as an international viewpoint. The authors, all highly regarded experts in their respective topics, use a range of approaches to examine history, demonstrating to readers that there are multiple ways to understand history. This volume will be of interest to industrial and organizational psychologists, business and management academics and professionals, historians of psychology, business, science and science and technology, undergraduate, and graduate students.

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences

Author: I. Grattan-Guinness

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 9780801873973

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The second book of a two-volume encyclopaedia which makes the vast and varied history of mathematics available in a reasonably compact format. The book offers in-depth accounts of the principal areas of activity up to the 1930s and touches on related topics, including ethnomathematics.

Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

Author: W. F. Bynum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 2019

ISBN-13: 1136110445

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This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to provide detailed and informative factual surveys with contemporary interpretations and historiographical debate. Special Features * Comprehensive: 72 substantial and original essays from internationally respected scholars * Unique: no other publication provides so much information in two volumes * Broad-ranging: includes coverage of non-Western as well as Western medicine * Up-to-date: incorporates the very latest in historical research and interpretation * User-friendly: clearly laid out and readable, with a full index of Topics and People * Indispensable: essential information for study and research, including bibliographic notes and cross-referencing between articles.

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Publisher: IOS Press

Published:

Total Pages: 4947

ISBN-13:

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Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

Author: William F. Bynum

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9780415164191

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This text provides an account of the development of medical science in its various branches, and includes discussions of the medical profession and its institutions, and the impact of medicine upon populations, economic development, culture, religions, and thought.

Managing diabetes, managing medicine
Managing diabetes, managing medicine

Author: Martin D. Moore

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1526113082

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Through its study of diabetes care in twentieth-century Britain, Managing diabetes, managing medicine offers the first historical monograph to explore how the decision-making and labour of medical professionals became subject to bureaucratic regulation and managerial oversight. Where much existing literature has cast health care management as either a political imposition or an assertion of medical control, this work positions managerial medicine as a co-constructed venture. Although driven by different motives, doctors, nurses, professional bodies, government agencies and international organisations were all integral to the creation of managerial systems, working within a context of considerable professional, political, technological, economic and cultural change.

Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine
Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine

Author: William H. Schneider

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-11-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0253109604

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The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research programs, major advances were achieved in several countries that did not have a notable history in medical research. In other circumstances, however, the Rockefeller Foundation was confronted with local cultural and political imperatives that reshaped or weakened its objectives. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine offers important lessons regarding the situations in which international philanthropy is likely to be most effective.

Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000
Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

Author: Paul Weindling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317578295

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A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres. This book considers a comprehensive range of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of pharmaceutical companies to the systems of twentieth century healthcare in Britain, Eastern Europe and South Africa. Covering a broad chronological, thematic and global scope, chapters discuss key themes such as how changing economies have influenced configurations of healthcare, how access has varied according to lifecycle, ethnicity and wealth, and how definitions of public and private have shifted over time. Containing illustrations and a general introduction that outlines the key themes discussed in the volume, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private is essential reading for any student interested in the history of medicine.