After removing traditional medicine from medical schools, Rockefeller made sure to secure his monopoly by launching a targeted smear campaign against his competitors. Homeopathy and natural medicines were discredited and demonized through the newspapers and other media of the time.

This book tells the hidden story of the financial, political, and institutional manipulations whereby a diverse and eclectic range of healing modalities available to the North American public was summarily pared down to a singular style of medicine that would become the predominant medicine of the Western world and a major force in global medical culture during the 20th century. This was brought about largely by the collaboration of the American Medical Association, the philanthropies of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and the development of a revolutionary curriculum by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

This, the Flexner Report (1910), and medical research devoted to finding pharmaceuticals to defeat germs to “cure” disease, were all funded by Rockefeller philanthropies and lead to what is considered to be the dominant paradigm in American medicine.4

John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) arguably had a more significant impact on 20th-century American medicine than any other individual, largely due to his philanthropic contributions to medical institutions, which totaled between $500 million and $1 billion in early 20th-century currency [1-4].

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July 9, 2024 - An unpublished letter, shown above, tells of a meeting between Edward Harkness and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the midst of these troubled 1917 P&S-Presbyterian Hospital negotiations. Rockefeller, a prominent philanthropist with a strong public health focus, was aggressively working to modernize medical education across the United States.

This book is an eloquent, well-documented damning appraisal of the historical marriage between medicine and capitalism and its impact on shaping the kind of health care system we have today.

May 11, 2013 - The RF also diverged at times from ... social medicine efforts that integrated the sociopolitical conditions underlying health with overall public health work. But these were accompaniments to, rather than at the core of, the RF approach to international health. The RF principles have continued ideological salience and bureaucratic convenience, as witnessed in the structure, strategies, and tenets of the global health field today. Rockefeller Foundation ...

December 12, 2022 - Most of you are probably baffled at such a question because if you think back to your days in U.S. history, then you remember Rockefeller, as the big oil tycoon guy, and he is. But Rockefeller also played a big role in the creation of modern Western medicine by tarnishing the reputation of natural medicine.

This book tells the hidden story of the financial, political, and institutional manipulations whereby a diverse and eclectic range of healing modalities available to the North American public was summarily pared down to a singular style of medicine that would become the predominant medicine of the Western world and a major force in global medical culture during the 20th century. This was brought about largely by the collaboration of the American Medical Association, the philanthropies of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and the development of a revolutionary curriculum by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press Publication date: 1979 Subjects: Rockefeller Foundation Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Medicine -- United States History 20th century Medical policy -- Business community participation United States History 20th century Charities, Medical -- United States History 20th century Medical economics -- United States History 20th century Medical education -- United States History 20th century United States -- Economic conditions 1865-1918 Notes: This is an OCR reprint.

August 16, 2024 - Humanity was crushing diseases ... therapies.” We are now afflicted by Rockefeller medicine, where ill citizens are hooked on expensive drugs that never heal ......

May 16, 2023 - John D. Rockefeller is arguably history’s single greatest funder of biomedical research. The son of a wandering folk-medicine salesman, Rockefeller himself was a lifelong believer in homeopathy. Yet his resources funded many of the most significant medical advances of the 20th century.

September 7, 2025 - Did you know that oil tycoon and business magnate John D. Rockefeller helped to remove “holistic” and “alternative” plant medicines from the teachings of medical professionals in the United States? That’s right!

The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research had been established in 1901 to support intensive scientific research in medicine, especially infectious diseases.

September 19, 2024 - The first institution in the United States devoted solely to using biomedical research to understand the underlying causes of disease, Rockefeller is today one of the foremost biomedical research centers in the world, and its scientists have made numerous seminal contributions to biology and ...

October 15, 2024 - In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, holistic medicine was widely practiced in America. People used natural remedies, like antimicrobial copper, to treat illnesses and infections. But what happened to all of that? Why did the world move away from these natural, effective solutions? The answer lies in the actions of two of the wealthiest men of their time: John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.

The environment at Rockefeller is perfect for developing a deep relationship between innovation, basic biology, and the understanding of human health and disease. PRESIDENT RICHARD P. LIFTON CARSON FAMILY PROFESSOR · Today we are witnessing a remarkable convergence of science and medicine.

The present overwhelming importance of medical science makes us tend to forget the rather sad state of medicine at the end of the 19th century. In the development of 20th-century medicine the crucial part played by the Johns Hopkins University has, in several recent publications, become better...