Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Men Who Followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions,1919?1951
William H. Schneider
Chapter 3. Irish Medicine's Appeal to Rockefeller
J.B. Lyons
Chapter 4. Make a Peak on the Plain: The Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged Project
Gabor Pallo
Chapter 5. From the Art of Medicine to Biomedical Science in France: Modernization or Americanization?
Jean?François Picard and William H. Schneider
Chapter 6. Passing through the Eye of the Needle: American Philanthropy and Soviet Medical Research in the 1920s
Margaret A. Trott
Chapter 7. The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's Medical Programs In China
Qiusha Ma
"Chapter 8. A Central Periphery : the Naples Zoological Station as an "Attractor"
Giuliana Gemelli
Chapter 9. "'Out of the Ghetto": The Rockefeller Foundation Confronts German Medical Sciences after the Second World War
Paul Weindling
Chapter 10. The Nuffield Foundation and Medical Genetics in the U.K.
Doris T. Zallen

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About the Author

William H. Schneider is Professor of History and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at Indiana University and Purdue University, Indianapolis. Prof. Schneider's research interests cover French and African history, as well as the history of science and medicine. A former Fulbright scholar, Prof. Schneider is the author of An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, 1870-1900 and Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in 20th Century France. He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies.