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William H. Schneider, ed. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the, Cold War. Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2002. 251 pp. Tables. $44.95 (0-253-34151-5).
These nine papers, according to the book's editor, offer a "comparative study of the development of biomedicine outside the United States in the first part of the twentieth century, with a focus on the role played by the Rockefeller Foundation" (p. vii). Each of the papers competently assesses the intersection of internal foundation history with selected events in biomedicine and politics in a particular country. One of the papers also tells an important story about policy, philanthropy, and culture, and the promotion of population health.
Eight papers assess events in the United States and European countries:...