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 Brahmins Resist --Fear and Trembling in the Board Room --State Universities: Professionals, the State, and Corporate Liberalism --Summing Up V-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 --Up Against the Medical Market --National Health Insurance: More of the Same --Technological Medicine --Scientific Medicine: Beliefs and Reality --Life, Death, and Medicine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of eac