RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
During 1935 The Rockefeller Foundation appropriated
22,733,050 for work in the field of
medical science. Of this sum, $1,459,450 was contributed
to projects for the advancement of
psychiatry. This emphasis on a specific branch
of medicine reflects the Foundation's present
policy of devoting the major part of the funds
which it has available for distribution, to the
furtherance of knowledge in selected fields. The
term psychiatry as used here is an inclusive one,
comprising clinical psychiatry; clinical neurology;
the anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pharmacology,
and pathology of the nervous system;
some aspects of psychology; and those phases of
other branches of medicine which bear directly
on the understanding of human behavior.
As a subdivision of medicine, psychiatry and
its allied fields need greater numbers of adequately
trained workers and increased facilities
for research and for the application of existing
knowledge. To aid in meeting these needs the
Foundation, in 1935, contributed funds to certain
schools to enable them to offer opportunities
for training and research in psychiatry of a character
to attract students of the best type; it
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