Topic: Medicine & Public Health

Two decades of funding helped legitimize the study of psychiatry as a medical issue, not a problem of character.

As the scarcity of global resources became increasingly worrisome in the 20th century, these organizations more boldly approached work in population and family planning.

India was not the first country to take up the new seeds and methods developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, but the story of India’s adoption of them in the 1960s is dramatic.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s first intensive agriculture endeavor is now credited with launching the global transformation known as the “Green Revolution.”

In the 1980s, critics argued that some groups had been left behind by the Green Revolution.

In the aftermath, Foundation staff struggled to rectify their organization’s involvement with this weapon of mass destruction.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

Global war drew a new philanthropy into relief work.

In this month’s edition of the series, the authors have used the records of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the General Education Board, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, along with the papers of Nelson C. Davis.

In this month’s edition of the series, the authors have used the records of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller, and the Near East Foundation.