Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986CUP Archive, 1986 M11 6 - 479 pages The Wellcome Trust is a charitable institution supporting medical and allied research throughout the world. This History of the Trust marks the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1986. Professor A. Rupert Hall, a prominent science historian, long associated with the Trust, and B. A. Bembridge, a retired Trust scientist, have written this lucid and well informed account which charts the development of the organisation from its inception in 1936 to the present day. Within this framework, there is an underlying discussion of the 'philosophy' of the financial endowment of science and medicine. The Wellcome Trust has had an enormous impact on medical research over the years. This volume provides a unique insight into the development of a leading scientific research body, and its relevance to similar institutions the world over. |
Contents
A great purpose | 3 |
Earliest days | 23 |
Out of the darkness | 48 |
Changing character | 66 |
The formation of policy to 1964 | 89 |
The grand design 19614 | 111 |
Recasting medical history | 121 |
The expansion of the organisation | 150 |
European and overseas studies nontropical | 330 |
The basic sciences and medicine | 343 |
Past and future by Dr P O Williams | 388 |
The Trustees statement of policy 1966 | 411 |
Advertised awards in mental health 197684 | 415 |
Awards for studies of schizophrenia | 418 |
Major grants 19804 | 420 |
Grants for buildings and equipment 193776 | 438 |
Charting a new course 196582 | 165 |
The latest phase | 185 |
PART II | 193 |
The impact of the Wellcome Trust on medical science | 213 |
Introduction | 215 |
The Trust and the tropics | 221 |
The health of animals | 263 |
Clinical and related sciences | 275 |
Buildings and equipment | 305 |
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