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LEADER: 03001cam a22004934a 4500
001 2008033564
003 DLC
005 20090901071228.0
008 080728s2008 ncua b 001 0ceng
010 $a 2008033564
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016 7 $a014702969$2Uk
020 $a9780786436736 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0786436735 (softcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)237194975
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn237194975
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aRE31$b.S77 2008
082 00 $a617.7092/2$aB$222
100 1 $aStrong, Beret E.,$d1961-
245 10 $aSeeking the light :$bthe lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness /$cBeret E. Strong ; foreword by G. Richard O'Connor.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2008.
300 $ax, 253 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
505 0 $aA 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 --
505 0 $aCalifornia 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.
520 $a"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.
600 10 $aThygeson, Phillips,$d1903-2002.
600 10 $aThygeson, Ruth Lee,$d1904-1994.
650 0 $aOphthalmologists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aBlindness.
650 0 $aTrachoma.
600 12 $aThygeson, Phillips,$d1903-2002.
600 12 $aThygeson, Ruth Lee,$d1904-1994.
650 12 $aOphthalmology$vBiography.
650 22 $aBlindness.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century.
650 22 $aHistory, 21st Century.
650 22 $aOphthalmology$xhistory.
650 22 $aTrachoma.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033564.html