Seeking the light
Subtitle: the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness
By: Beret E. Strong ; foreword by G. Richard O'Connor.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780786436736
Subjects: Thygeson, Phillips, -- 1903-2002; Thygeson, Ruth Lee, -- 1904-1994; Thygeson, Phillips, -- 1903-2002; Thygeson, Ruth Lee, -- 1904-1994; Ophthalmologists -- United States -- Biography; Blindness; Trachoma; Ophthalmology -- Biography; Blindness; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Ophthalmology -- history; Trachoma
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Minnesota childhood; title: A San Francisco childhood; title: A death in the family; title: Genteel poverty and a pandemic; title: Meeting at Stanford; title: Courtship, a wedding, and Victorian values; title: Married and in medical school; title: Frontier medicine in Colorado; title: Building a real log cabin; title: To Egypt in search of trachoma; title: Learning from a Nobel laureate in Tunisia; title: Research idyll in Iowa City; title: Fort Apache and the great experiment; title: The New York chapter : two kinds of politics; title: World War II in the Army Air Corps; title: California and an experiment in private practice; title: The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology; title: Father and son : from San Quentin to steroids; title: Mother and daughter : world federalist and equestrienne; title: The glory days of academic medicine; title: World Health Organization and world class editing; title: International fellows and fellowship; title: Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation; title: Ripened souls tend their orchard; title: The end of the journey.