Creating a tradition of biomedical research : contributions to the history of the Rockefeller University / edited by Darwin H. Stapleton.

New York : The Rockefeller University Press, [2004], ©2004.

314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

The Rockefeller (University) effect: a phenomenon in biomedical science -- Institutionalizing excellence in biomedical research : the case of the Rockefeller University -- New images of a new medicine: visual evidence for the widespread popularity of therapeutic dicoveries in America after 1885 -- Research at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research -- Rufus Cole and the clinical approach -- Innovation in modern surgery: Alexis Carrel and blood vessel repair -- Building "a new type of body in which to grow a cell": tissue culture at the Rockefeller Institute, 1910-1914 -- "The doctors are so sure that they only are right": The Rockefeller Institute and the defeat of vivisection reform in New York, 1908-1914 -- The start of a cancer research tradition: Peyton Rous, James Ewing, and viruses as a cause of cancer -- Women scientists at the Rockefeller Institute, 1901-1940 -- Hideyo Noguchi, the pursuit of immunity ant the persistence of fame: a reappraisal -- Gasser, Bronk, and the International Network of Physiologists -- James B. Murphy, the Rous sarcoma agent, and origins of modern cell biology -- The Rockefeller University and the molecular revolution in biology -- Paul A. Weiss, 1898-1989: the cell engineer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.