From working collections to the World Germplasm Project: agricultural modernization and genetic conservation at the Rockefeller Foundation
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DOI: 10.1007/s40656-017-0131-8
Abstract: This paper charts the history of the Rockefeller Foundation’s participation in the collection and long-term preservation of genetic diversity in crop plants from the 1940s through the 1970s. In the decades following the launch of… read more here.
Keywords: foundation; rockefeller foundation; agricultural modernization; world ... See more keywords
Stanley Cobb, the Rockefeller Foundation and the evolution of American psychiatry
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DOI: 10.1177/0957154x18788813
Abstract: Stanley Cobb founded the Harvard Departments of Neurology (1925) and Psychiatry (1934) with Rockefeller Foundation funding. Cobb was an important transitional figure in both neurology and psychiatry. He and his friend Alan Gregg were the… read more here.
Keywords: american psychiatry; neurology; rockefeller foundation; psychiatry ... See more keywords
A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria: The Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943–49
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DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2018.0007
Abstract: summary:This article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in… read more here.
Keywords: yellow fever; research; rockefeller foundation; fever research ... See more keywords
The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin American Music in the 1960s: The Creation of Indiana University’s LAMC and Di Tella Institute’s CLAEM
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DOI: 10.5406/americanmusic.35.1.0051
Abstract: in 1961 and 1962 John p. Harrison, associate director for the Humanities Division at the rockefeller Foundation, successfully sponsored grants toward the creation of the latin American music Center (lAmC) at indiana university and the… read more here.
Keywords: latin american; music; rockefeller foundation; american music ... See more keywords