Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America

Rockefeller Medicine Men
	CONTENTS
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
		DOCTORS
		OTHER INTEREST GROUPS
		FOUNDATIONS AND THE STATE
	“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”
		REVEREND 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
	Scientific Medicine I: Ideology of Professional Uplift
		AMERICAN MEDICINE IN THE 1800s
		LICENSING
		MEDICAL SECTS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS
		MEDICAL SOCIETIES
		CODES OF ETHICS
		INCOMPLETE PROFESSIONALIZATION
		MEDICINE AS SCIENCE
		GAINING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
		REDUCING COMPETITION
		TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL EDUCATION THE NEW ACADEMICIANS
		“FEWER AND BETTER”
		“NONSECTARIAN” MEDICINE UNDERMINES THE SECTS
		SPECIALIZATION: LESS COMPETITION FOR THE ELITE
		GAINS AND LOSSES
	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 AN INDUSTRIALIST WORLD VIEW
		INDUSTRIAL CULTURE AND CAPITALIST LEGITIMATION
		GATES’ DIGRESSION
		A PERMANENT INVESTMENT
	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”
		IMPACT OF THE REPORT
		THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD: MEDICAL EDUCATION GETS A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
		FULL TIME: “GOLD OR GLORY”
		SELLING THE FULL-TIME PROPOSAL
		BOSTON BRAHMINS RESIST
		FEAR AND TREMBLING IN THE BOARD ROOM
		FEAR UNDERMINES THE FULL-TIME POLICY
		STATE UNIVERSITIES: PROFESSIONALS,
		THE STATE, AND CORPORATE LIBERALISM
		“ENDOW PRIVATE COLLEGES”
		A NEW ROLE FOR THE STATE
		MODERNIZING THE GEB: GATES DEFEATED AGAIN
		SUMMING UP
	Epilogue: A Half-Century of Medicine in Corporate Capitalist Society
		FREDERICK T. GATES AND THE ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPIES
		RATIONALIZING THE MEDICAL MARKET THE COMMITTEE ON THE COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE
		DOCTORS AND THE CAPITAL-INTENSIVE COMMODITY SECTOR
		THE STATE: RATIONALIZING THE PRIVATE MARKET
		THE GROWTH OF CAPITAL-INTENSIVE COMMODITIES
		THE “CORPORATE RATIONALIZERS”
		THE STATE AND CAPITALIST MEDICINE
		DIVIDED THEY STAND
		UP AGAINST THE MEDICAL MARKET
		NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE: MORE OF THE SAME
		TECHNOLOGICAL MEDICINE
		SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE: BELIEFS AND REALITY
		LIFE, DEATH, AND MEDICINE THE HISTORICAL RECORD
		LIFE, DEATH, AND MEDICINE TODAY
		TAPPING THE STATE TREASURY
		A “SUPERACADEMIC GENERAL STAFF”
		THE CORPORATE CLASS
		THE MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
		TECHNOLOGY IN CRISIS
		BLAMING THE VICTIM: NEW PROMINENCE FOR AN OLD IDEOLOGY
		CONCLUSION
	Notes
	Index