Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War

The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the
Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public
health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War.
Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research
programs, major advances were achieved in several countries that did not have a
notable history in medical research. In other circumstances, however, the
Rockefeller Foundation was confronted with local cultural and political imperatives
that reshaped or weakened its objectives. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern
Biomedicine offers important lessons regarding the situations in which international
philanthropy is likely to be most effective.