5. “A Steam Engine in Pants”: The Boom Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Founding Years 7
7. 3. Hard Times: The Dark Years 35
8. 4. Flexner’s Report and Blumer’s Deanship 65
9. 5. “A Steam Engine in Pants”: The Boom Years 94
10. 6. The Bubble Bursts: The Depression Years 138
11. 7. The Medical School Goes to War 153
12. 8. Peace and Readjustment 168
13. 9. Expansion Years 179
14. 10. Social Unrest 201
15. 11. The Department of Medicine 218
16. 12. Public Health and the Greater Good 239
17. 13. The State Hospital 256
18. 14. Epilogue 282
19. Notes 297
20. Selected Bibliography 345
21. Index 357