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Book SynopsisWeill Cornell Medicine is a story of continuity and transformation. Throughout its colorful history, Cornell's medical school has been a leader in education, patient care, and researchfrom its founding as Cornell University Medical College in 1898, to its renaming as Weill Cornell Medical College in 1998, and now in its current incarnation as Weill Cornell Medicine.
In this insightful and nuanced book, dean emeritus Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, and Jennifer Moon situate the history of Cornell's medical school in the context of the development of modern medicine and health care. The book examines the triumphs, struggles, and controversies the medical college has undergone. It recounts events surrounding the medical school's beginnings as one of the first to accept female students, its pioneering efforts to provide health care to patients in the emerging middle class, wartime and the creation of overseas military hospitals, medical research ranging from the effects of alcoh
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Weill Cornell Medicine is a valuable contribution to the history of medical education in the United States. There are relatively few histories of medical schools, and most are celebratory volumes that do not incorporate information gleaned from archival records. This institutional history provides insight into the challenges Cornell Medical College has faced since it was established by the trustees of Cornell University in 1898. The authors relied on internal reports, newspaper stories, interviews, and first-hand knowledge to explain how a series of deans and other top administrators confronted problems and seized opportunities.
-- W. Bruce Fye, Mayo Clinic * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
Table of ContentsForeword by Laurie H. Glimcher, MD
1 Origins
2 Clinical Innovation and a Historic Partnership
3 A Move to Manhattan's Upper East Side
4 The Medical School in Wartime
5 Postwar Boom
6 The Expansive 1960s
7 A Decade of Malaise
8 Discord and Disrepair
9 Renaming and Rebirth
10 Forging Ahead in the Twenty-First Century
