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Teaching tomorrow's medicine today : the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003 / Barbara J. Niss and Arthur H. Aufses, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Niss, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine--History.
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
- Medical colleges--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Medical colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. In Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today , Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., chairman of Mount Sinai's Department of Surgery, and archivist Barbara Niss chronicle the development of the medical school from its origins in the 1960's to the current leadership. The authors examine the social forces that compelled the world-renowned hospital to remake itself as an academic medical center, revealing the school's departure from and...
- Contents:
- The history of the school
- The curriculum
- The Graduate School of Biological Sciences / by Terry Ann Krulwich
- The basic sciences
- The Department of Anatomy; the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy; the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
- The Department of Physiology; the Department of Physiology and Biophysics
- The Department of Microbiology
- The Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Department of Biochemistry; the Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
- The Department of Pharmacology; the Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
- The centers and institutes
- Center for Molecular Biology; the Brookdale Center for Molecular Biology; the Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
- Center for Neurobiology; the Arthur M. Fishberg Center for Neurobiology; the Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology and the Kastor Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories
- The Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center
- The Carl C. Icahn Center for Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine
- The Center for Immunobiology
- The Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
- The Department of Human Genetics
- The Department of Health Policy
- Graduate and postgraduate education
- The faculty practice plan
- The Mount Sinai alumni
- Student voices: in their own words.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-392) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814758762
- 0814758762
- 9780814759127
- 0814759122
- 9781429413916
- 1429413913
- OCLC:
- 779828186
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