Seeking the light : the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness / Beret E. Strong ; foreword by G. Richard O'Connor.
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Seeking the light : the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness / Beret E. Strong ; foreword by G. Richard O'Connor.
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
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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.