Includes bibliographical references and index. ". . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twentieth century"--p. ix.
Contents:
Scientific discoveries : an institutionalist and path-dependent perspective / J. Rogers Hollingsworth. The socialization of research and the transformation of the academy / Richard C. Lewontin -- Disease categories and scientific disciplines: reorganizing the NIH Intramural Program, 1945-1960 / Buhm Soon Park -- The National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, 1949-1965 / Gerald N. Grob -- Radium and the origins of the National Cancer Institute / David Cantor -- Transplant nation : the NIH and the politics of heart transplantation in the 1960s / Susan E. Lederer -- Mobilizing biomedicine : virus research between lay health organizations and the U.S. federal government, 1935-1955 / Angela N.H. Creager -- Genes, disease, and patents : cash and community in biomedicine / Daniel J. Kevles -- The critical role of laboratory instruments at the Rockefeller : biomedicine as biotechnology / Darwin H. Stapleton -- Clinical research in postwar Britain : the role of the Medical Research Council / Carsten Timmermann -- Towards a history of The Vaccine Innovation System, 1950-2000 / Stuart Blume -- Molecularization and infectious disease research : the case of synthetic antimalarial drugs in the twentieth century / Leo Slater -- Scientific discoveries : an institutionalist and path-dependent perspective / J. Rogers Hollingsworth.
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