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Medical History

Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax

by (author) Marianne Fedunkiw

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2005
Category
History, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773528970
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572898
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $110.00

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Description

Fedunkiw focuses on three recipients - the University of Toronto (the leading Ontario medical school), McGill University ( Canada's medical school ), and Dalhousie University (the struggling Maritime school) - to demonstrate how the money made possible the introduction of full-time clinical teaching and encouraged greater public and private support for medical education. The shift to full time, although advocated by progressive educators, also led to a backlash in Toronto resulting in a provincial inquiry in Ontario that threatened to return the University of Toronto to government control. Her book not only provides a history of Canadian medical education and large-scale philanthropy in North America but also analyses the effects of philanthropic giving, the practice of matching fund gifts, and accountability.

About the author

Marianne P. Fedunkiw is associated scholar, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.

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