
ROCKEFELLER MEDICINE MEN: MEDICINE AND CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
By RICHARD E. BROWNLength10h 18m
About this audiobook
Discover a hidden chapter of history that shaped the modern educational landscape. This compelling work exposes the complex, cynical political compromises made during the Jim Crow era between wealthy Northern philanthropists and Southern white supremacist leaders. Through meticulous documentation and striking firsthand accounts, the book reveals how the deliberate funding of manual vocational training over higher academic colleges was used to justify the stripping away of Black voting rights and the enforcement of strict segregation. A brilliant, eye-opening resource for readers seeking to understand the deep intersections of race, education, power, and institutional transparency in American history.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Politics and Government
Length10 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11DIVIDED THEY STAND
2Chapter 1 "Wholesale Philanthropy": From charity to Social Transformation
12UP AGAINST THE MEDICAL MARKET
3Chapter 2 Scientific Medicine I: Ideology of Professional Uplift
13NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE: MORE OF THE SAME
4Chapter 3 Scientific Medicine II: The Preservation of Capital
14TECHNOLOGICAL MEDICINE
5Chapter 4 Reforming Medical Education: Who will rule Medicine?
15LIFE, DEATH, AND MEDICINE TODAY
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6Chapter 5 Epilogue: A Half-Century of Medicine in Corporate Capitalist Society
16TAPPING THE STATE TREASURY
7RATIONALIZING THE MEDICAL MARKET
17THE CORPORATE CLASS
8THE STATE: RATIONALIZING THE PRIVATE MARKET
18THE MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
9THE GROWTH OF CAPITAL-INTENSIVE COMMODITIES
19BLAMING THE VICTIM: NEW PROMINENCE FOR AN OLD IDEOLOGY
10THE STATE AND CAPITALIST MEDICINE
20CONCLUSION