An edition of Seeking the light (2008)

Seeking the light

the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness

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Seeking the light
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An edition of Seeking the light (2008)

Seeking the light

the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness

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"This comprehensive biography tells the complete story of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson's personal lives and careers. 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"--Provided by publisher.

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McFarland & Co.
Language
English
Pages
253

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Subjects

Trachoma, Ophthalmology, Blindness, Biography, History, 21st Century, Ophthalmologists, History, 20th Century, History, Physicians, biography, Married people

People

Phillips Thygeson (1903-2002), Ruth Lee Thygeson (1904-1994)

Places

United States
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Seeking the light: the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness
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Table of Contents

A Minnesota childhood
A San Francisco childhood
A death in the family
Genteel poverty and a pandemic
Meeting at Stanford
Courtship, a wedding, and Victorian values
Married and in medical school
Frontier medicine in Colorado
Building a real log cabin
To Egypt in search of trachoma
Learning from a Nobel laureate in Tunisia
Research idyll in Iowa City
Fort Apache and the great experiment
The New York chapter : two kinds of politics
World War II in the Army Air Corps
California and an experiment in private practice
The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology
Father and son : from San Quentin to steroids
Mother and daughter : world federalist and equestrienne
The glory days of academic medicine
World Health Organization and world class editing
International fellows and fellowship
Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation
Ripened souls tend their orchard
The end of the journey.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Jefferson, N.C
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
617.7092/2, B
Library of Congress
RE31 .S77 2008, RE31.S77 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
253

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17031510M
ISBN 13
9780786436736
LCCN
2008033564
OCLC/WorldCat
237194975
Goodreads
4501005

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2671881W

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