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13 lut 2023 · The roots of the organization can be traced to the 1960s, when highly politicized debates over the prospect of national health insurance in the United States revealed the need for an unbiased, evidence-based source of advice to guide health policy and its implementation.
13 lut 2023 · Commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM; formerly the Institute of Medicine [IOM]), this volume describes the circumstances that led to the IOM’s founding in 1970, the members and leaders who built and sustained the organization, and the process by which the IOM became the NAM in 2015.
Early in 1971, Philip Handler, the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), wrote one of his correspondents that ''the Institute of Medicine [IOM] is, at the moment, largely a paper organization, but the members of our Board on Medicine are busily engaged in fleshing it out."11.
In this first formal history of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Professor Edward Berkowitz describes many of the important events and individuals associated with this institution. Many more decades may have to pass before we can fully appreciate or understand the significance of the Institute's work in the larger context of American life.
These gave way in November 1967 to the activities of the Board on Medicine, a group convened in Washington by the National Academy of Sciences. What emerged in 1970 was the Institute of Medicine. An institute not an academy, the new organization nonetheless reflected the ideas of all three men.
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23 paź 2024 · Explore unique items from the history of medicine held in the public trust at the National Library of Medicine.
