Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Founding Years -- 3. Hard Times: The Dark Years -- 4. Flexner's Report and Blumer's Deanship: The Defining Years -- 5. "A Steam Engine in Pants": The Boom Years -- 6. The Bubble Bursts: The Depression Years -- 7. The Medical School Goes to War -- 8. Peace and Readjustment -- 9. Expansion Years -- 10. Social Unrest: The Turbulent Years -- 11. The Department of Medicine -- 12. Public Health and the Greater Good -- 13. The State Hospital -- 14. Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.