1935

Howard Florey appointed Professor of Pathology at Oxford (51ff.). Rockefeller Foundation (Alan Gregg) begins funding psychiatric research at the Maudsley, with Frederick Golla heading the Maudsley Pathological Laboratory (Edgar Jones, 18-20). George Canby Robinson spends five months as visiting professor at Peking Union Medical College, where he meets Richard Lyman and Walter Cannon and becomes enthused about psychosomatic medicine. On his return, he received Rockefeller grant for “A Study of the Accessory Factors on Health” at Johns Hopkins Hospital; the study and grant support was expanded and incorporated into the 3rd-year med school curriculum in 1936-37 (T. Brown III, 144ff.). Robinson’s major publication on the Hopkins project, The Patient as a Person, was published with Commonwealth Fund support in 1939 (149-151), but it offered “no social, economic, or class analysis, skirted the presumption of victimization, and placed the burden on individuals whose ‘faulty habits’ or inappropriate means of ‘adjustment’ caused them difficulties” (1950).