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Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas.
- Title
- Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas.
- Author
- Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RD592.9.Q46 A3 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Rivas, Mim Eichler
- Description
- 317 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Tells the life story of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa from impoverished childhood in a tiny village in Mexico to illegal immigrant, American citizen, student at the University of California, on to Harvard Medical School, and becoming an internationally renowned neurosurgeon.
- Subject
- Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
- Transients and Migrants
- Mexican Americans
- Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgeons > Mexico > Biography
- Mexican Americans > Mexico > Biography
- Migrant labor > Mexico > Biography
- Neurosurgery > United States > Autobiography
- Mexican Americans > United States > Autobiography
- Transients and Migrants > United States > Autobiography
- Neurosurgical Procedures
- Mexico
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Autobiography
- Biographies.
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
- ISBN
- 9780520271180 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520271181 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011011531
- OCLC
- 707710865
- SCSB-10531326
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library