Consists chiefly of reprints from various medical journals.

Consists chiefly of reprints from various medical journals.

Consists chiefly of reprints from various medical journals.

Consists chiefly of reprints from various medical journals.

Excerpt from Studies From the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Index, Authors and Subjects, (1904-1916) This Index has been compiled for the purpose of making the Studies from The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research more readily avail able for reading and reference. As the pages of the volumes from I to XVI are not numbered consecutively, it was first necessary to do this, in order to give a proper page reference to each item in the Index. We would suggest, therefore, to those possessing the Studies that they page Volumes I to XVI inclusive in accordance with the numbers employed in the Index. To do this will not be a laborious task, as possibly it will not be necessary to page the volumes through out, in detail. It will suffice, we believe, to page the table of con tents, and then to designate 1n each volume the proper page number for the first page of an article, which can be done with the assist ance of the author's section of the Index. For those who desire to page the volumes completely, it may be added that in the consecutive numbering, all pages - those blank, as well as title pages of articles - have been included; but the inserts and plates have not been included in the numbering. We have also not included the tables of contents, as it is the custom to page these in another series of numerals. The paging for each volume has been begun with the first page of the first article in that volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised of essays by noted historians and social scientists that offer insights on a range of subjects that should be a significant stimulus for further historical investigation. It details the NIH’s practices, policies and politics on a variety of fronts, including the development of the intramural program, the National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, the politics and funding of heart transplantation and the initial focus of the National Cancer Institute. Comparisons can be made with the development of other American and British institutions involved in medical research, such as the Rockefeller Institute and the Medical Research Council. Discussions of the larger scientific and social context of United States’ federal support for research, the role of lay institutions in federal funding of virus research, the consequences of technology transfer and patenting, the effects of vaccine and drug development and the environment of research discoveries all offer new insights and suggest questions for further exploration.

Oswald Theodore Avery is little known outside of the scientific community. Yet, this extraordinary man, here brought vividly to life by a perceptive friend and sophisticated scientific colleague, was a monumental force in the development of medical research in the United States. Even among scientists, Avery is known chiefly as the senior author of a paper published in 1944 that identified DNA as the purveyor of genetic information. Two things make this highly personalized biography a landmark volume. First, its technical chapters clarify the philosophical concepts that lie behind today's understanding of the immunology of bacterial infection. Second, not a single existing textbook has ever described the laborious methods by which the men in Avery's laboratory discovered the genetic import of DNA.