| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

William H. Schneider, editor. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. 251. $44.95.

This collection of essays was inspired by a good idea: that it would be valuable to have a set of comparative case studies showing the Rockefeller Foundation's influence on the development of biomedicine outside the United States during the period from World War I to the Cold War. As is sometimes the case, however, this good idea did not result in a successful book. The editor, William H. Schneider, is a fine historian who knows a great deal about the Rockefeller Foundation, its internal organization and dynamics, and its ways of working in a variety of national settings. But Schneider's ideas have their own limitations, and in this project he was required to work with eight other scholars who do not fully and consistently share his depth of understanding, his expository skill, or even his intellectual agenda. The resulting volume is something of a hodge podge.

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