Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America

Book Synopsis: Acknowledgments The idea for this book grew out of my teaching about the political economy of health care. My students and I asked how the present system came to be. The search for answers led me to histories of medicine, published materials in journals of the period, and the archival files of the Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies. The archives provided a rich record of the thoughts, policies, and actions of some of the most influential persons in the history of American medicine. The search culminated in this book. But the book would not have been possible without the generous help, enthusiastic interest, and personal support of many people. I am especially grateful to Howard Waitzkin, WilHam Kornhauser, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gert Brieger, and Michael Pincus, all of whom gave me detailed and thoughtful criticisms on major portions of the manuscript together with great encouragement. I also received helpful criticism and support from Anne Johnson, Jon Garfield, Charlene Harrington, Barbara Waterman, James O'Connor, Dan Feshbach, Ivan Illich, David Horowitz, June Fisher, Kathryn Johnson, Jack London, Jane Grant, Tom Bodenheimer, Sara Mclntire, Joe Selby, Larry Sirott, and Myrna Cozen. Howard Berliner has been an exceptional colleague, sharing ideas and material in a cooperative effort to understand these sparsely studied issues.

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