Seeking the Light
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3673-6 (ISBN)
Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on external diseases of the human eye. Together, this husband-and-wife team shared a mutual story of extraordinary accomplishment including, among other things, the discovery of the cause of trachoma, a potentially blinding disease that affects millions of people worldwide.
This comprehensive biography tells the story of their personal lives and careers. Beginning with their family backgrounds, the story continues through their meeting on the campus of Stanford University, their years of practicing "frontier medicine" in rural Colorado (where they built a log cabin with their own hands), their world travels in search of a cure for trachoma, and their considerable roles in establishing the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. The story of this couple is one of a lifelong collaboration in medicine, a 70-year love affair, and an unending quest to conquer preventable blindness around the world.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Beret E. Strong lives in Longmont, Colorado.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword (by G. Richard O’Connor, M.D.)
Introduction
1. A Minnesota Childhood
2. A San Francisco Childhood
3. A Death in the Family
4. Genteel Poverty and a Pandemic
5. Meeting at Stanford
6. Courtship, a Wedding, and Victorian Values
7. Married and in Medical School
8. Frontier Medicine in Colorado
9. Building a Real Log Cabin
10. To Egypt in Search of Trachoma
11. Learning from a Nobel Laureate in Tunisia
12. Research Idyll in Iowa City
13. Fort Apache and the Great Experiment
14. The New York Chapter: Two Kinds of Politics
15. World War II in the Army Air Corps
16. California and an Experiment in Private Practice
17. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology
18. Father and Son: From San Quentin to Steroids
19. Mother and Daughter: World Federalist and Equestrienne
20. The Glory Days of Academic Medicine
21. World Health Organization and World Class Editing
22. International Fellows and Fellowship
23. Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation
24. Ripened Souls Tend Their Orchard
25. The End of the Journey
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 35 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 358 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Augenheilkunde | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-3673-5 / 0786436735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-3673-6 / 9780786436736 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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