| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Creating the Institute of Medicine -- Page Discussion Group -- Walsh McDermott and the Board on Medicine -- Heart Transplant Statement -- Business of the Board -- Debate over a National Academy of Medicine -- Rejection by the National Academy of Sciences -- Diplomacy Reconciliation -- Institute of Medicine -- Institute of Medicine Begins Operations -- Recruiting Members -- John Hogness -- Staffing the Institute and Bureaucratic Routines -- Cancer Wars -- Entitlement and Health Contrasts -- Health Effects of Aboration -- Policy Statements -- Costs of Education Study -- Program Committee -- Fund-Raising -- Organizational Routines -- Relations with the National Academy of Sciences -- Donald Fredrickson -- Hamburg Era -- David Hamburg Arrives -- Ruth Hanft and the Social Security Studies -- Institute Recharts Its Course -- Reorganization -- Clearing the Pipeline -- Malpractice Study and the Polio Study -- Embrace of the Carter Administration -- Working for the Carter Administration on International and Mental Health -- Working with the Carter Administration: The Dental Study and the Surgeon General's Report -- Riddles of Power -- Fund-Raising -- Defining the Institute's Mission -- Fred Robbins and the Sproull Report -- Searching for Frederick Robbins -- Backlist of Projects -- Ebert Report -- Advent of the Reagan Administration -- Studies During the Reagan Era -- Fund-Raising -- Sproull Report -- Defending the Institute of Medicine -- Expansion of the Institute of Medicine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Institute of Medicine (U.S.) -- History.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.) |
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History. |
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Medicine -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Medicine -- Research. |
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United States. |
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Academies and Institutes -- history. |
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Public Health -- history. |
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Health Policy -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
History of the Institute of Medicine |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Berkowitz, Edward D. To improve human health. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998 0309061881 (DLC) 98040289 (OCoLC)40500046 |
| ISBN |
0585006830 (electronic book) |
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9780585006833 (electronic book) |
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0309061881 (hardback) |
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9780309061889 (hardback) |
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