Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.
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Perfect Timing: Policy Change at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Establishment of the Montreal Neurological Institute

January 1, 2008

My current research project explores the emergence of the profession of neurosurgery in the first half of the twentieth century. I take an in-depth look at two of these institutes, the Montreal Neurological Institute, which was founded in 1934 with financial help from the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Neurological Institute of New York, which opened its doors in 1909, but did not benefit from substantial Rockefeller Foundation help until much later.

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