Transforming Ideas

by Kraus, Robert; Phelps, Charles E.

• ISBN13: 9781580460903
• ISBN10: 1580460909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Rochester Pr

Summary

A series of essays celebrating the University of Rochester's sesquicentennial, highlighting its significant contributions in disciplines from medicine to art history, chemistry to business, political science to music.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Inspiring America's Composers	p. 1
Discovering Progesterone	p. 11
Of Diet, Drugs, and the Cure for Anemia	p. 19
Breakthrough Chemistry: The First Synthesis of Morphine	p. 28
The Rochester Conferences on High Energy Physics	p. 37
The Biopsychosocial Model	p. 46
Writers and Editors: Preserving the Canon	p. 56
Positive Political Theory	p. 65
Geriatric Medicine's Coming of Age	p. 74
The Unification Model of Nursing Education	p. 84
Quest for Fusion: Laser Energetics	p. 92
Agency Theory	p. 102
Positive Accounting Theory	p. 110
Eradicating Childhood Bacterial Meningitis	p. 118
Coping with the Stress of Illness	p. 126
Education as Social Practice	p. 133
Quantum Optics at Rochester	p. 142
The New World of Visual and Cultural Studies	p. 149
Initiatives in Music for the Twenty-First Century	p. 158
Notes	p. 167
Contributors	p. 175
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