Creating a tradition of biomedical research : contributions to the history of the Rockefeller University / edited by Darwin H. Stapleton.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Stapleton, Darwin H.
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The Rockefeller University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:	Rockefeller University > History. Medicine, Experimental > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Rockefeller University. Hospitals, Teaching > history. Biomedical Research > history. History, 20th Century. Therapies, Investigational > history. New York (State) New York.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The Rockefeller (University) effect: a phenomenon in biomedical science
Institutionalizing excellence in biomedical research : the case of the Rockefeller University
New images of a new medicine: visual evidence for the widespread popularity of therapeutic discoveries in America after 1885
Research at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Rufus Cole and the clinical approach
Innovation in modern surgery: Alexis Carrel and blood vessel repair
Building "a new type of body in which to grow a cell": tissue culture at the Rockefeller Institute, 1910-1914
"The doctors are so sure that they only are right": The Rockefeller Institute and the defeat of vivisection reform in New York, 1908-1914
The start of a cancer research tradition: Peyton Rous, James Ewing, and viruses as a cause of cancer
Women scientists at the Rockefeller Institute, 1901-1940
Hideyo Noguchi, the pursuit of immunity ant the persistence of fame: a reappraisal
Gasser, Bronk, and the International Network of Physiologists
James B. Murphy, the Rous sarcoma agent, and origins of modern cell biology
The Rockefeller University and the molecular revolution in biology
Paul A. Weiss, 1898-1989: the cell engineer.