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Weill Cornell Medicine is a valuable contribution to the history of medical education in the United States. There are relatively few histories of medical schools, and most are celebratory volumes that do not incorporate information gleaned from archival records. This institutional history provides insight into the challenges Cornell Medical College has faced since it was established by the trustees of Cornell University in 1898. The authors relied on internal reports, newspaper stories, interviews, and first-hand knowledge to explain how a series of deans and other top administrators confronted problems and seized opportunities.
Antonio Gotto, Jr., is a prominent academic physician and scientist who was dean of Weill Cornell Medical College from 1997 through 2011. Jennifer Moon is a writer and editor at the institution. Gotto and Moon deal with many themes, but they emphasize the evolution of teaching, research, clinical programs, and facilities. They explain how this prominent Manhattan-based institution responded to the stresses and strains of a series of transformations that characterized medical education, biomedical research, and patient care in the United States during the twentieth and early twenty-first...