Rockefeller Medicine Men Medicine And Capitalism In America [Paperback]

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America
By E. Richard Brown


Contents

Introduction
--Doctors
--Other Interest Groups
--Foundations and the State

I- Wholesale Philanthropy : From Charity to Social Transformation
--Creating Private Fortunes and Social Discontent
--Driving the Reluctant Poor from Poverty
--Training Scientific Heads to Direct America's Hard Hands
--Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
--Reverand Gates Introduces Rockefeller to Wholesale Philanthropy
--The Reverend Frederick T. Gates: The Making of a Rockefeller Medicine Man
--The General Education Board: $129 Million for Strategic Philanthropy
--Social Managers for a Corporate Society

II-Scientific Medicine I: Ideology of a Professional Uplift
--American Medicine in the 1800s
--Incomplete Professionalization
--Medicine as a Science
--Gaining Public Confidence
--Reducing Competition
--Technical Requirements of Scientific Medical Education
-- Nonsectarian Medicine Undermines the Sects
--Specialization: Less Competition for the Elite
--Gains and Losses

III-Scientific Medicine II: The Preservation of Capital
--Medical Technology and Capital
--Welch: A Rockefeller Medicine Man
--Rockefeller Money and Medical Science: A Social Investment
--Homeopathy: The Conflict Simmers
--Scientific Medicine and Capitalist Gates
--Healthier Workers
--Ideological Medicine
--Gates' Digression
--A Permanent Investment

IV-Reforming Medical Education: Who Will Rule Medicine?
--Practitioners Gain a Foothold
--Council on Medical Education
--Money for Medical Education: Who Will Pay?
--Help from the Carnegie Foundation
--The Flexner Report
--The General Education Board: Medical Education gets a Different Drummer
--Full Time: Gold or Glory
--Selling the Full-Time Proposal
--Boston Brahml°