RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
United States, England, Russia, France, Germany,
and Italy pertaining to social medicine,
public health, and the control of licensed and
unlicensed healers, and he is devoting a large
part of his time to the study of this material.
Dr. Sigerist is conducting a course for firstyear
students, and seminars for second- and
third-year students, on the ethical and
social
implications of the practice of medicine. The
students have shown a deep interest in these
aspects of medical practice, and there is great
promise of a realization of the hope of the
founders of the institute that it would counteract
the tendency of medical schools to place too
great emphasis on the purely scientific training
of students or upon research accomplishment
and to neglect the non-technical and humanistic
side of medicine.
Cornell University
Conference of Workers in the Biological Sciences
The sum of ?1,000 was granted to Cornell
University toward the expenses of a conference
of workers in the biological sciences, held under
the auspices of the university in June 1935. The
subjects which were represented, namely, psychology,
neuropsychology, physical anthropology,
physiology, endocrinology, embryology, and
biochemistry, are within the Foundation's spheres
of interest in the medical and the natural sciences.
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