Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on external diseases of the human eye. Together, this husband-and-wife team shared a mutual story of extraordinary accomplishment including, among other things, the discovery of the cause of trachoma, a potentially blinding disease that affects millions of people worldwide. This comprehensive biography tells the story of their personal lives and careers. Beginning with their family backgrounds, the story continues through their meeting on the campus of Stanford University, their years of practicing "frontier medicine" in rural…mehr
Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson were pioneers in medical research on external diseases of the human eye. Together, this husband-and-wife team shared a mutual story of extraordinary accomplishment including, among other things, the discovery of the cause of trachoma, a potentially blinding disease that affects millions of people worldwide. This comprehensive biography tells the story of their personal lives and careers. Beginning with their family backgrounds, the story continues through their meeting on the campus of Stanford University, their years of practicing "frontier medicine" in rural Colorado (where they built a log cabin with their own hands), their world travels in search of a cure for trachoma, and their considerable roles in establishing the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. 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.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Beret E. Strong lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword (by G. Richard O'Connor, M.D.) Introduction 1. A Minnesota Childhood 2. A San Francisco Childhood 3. A Death in the Family 4. Genteel Poverty and a Pandemic 5. Meeting at Stanford 6. Courtship, a Wedding, and Victorian Values 7. Married and in Medical School 8. Frontier Medicine in Colorado 9. Building a Real Log Cabin 10. To Egypt in Search of Trachoma 11. Learning from a Nobel Laureate in Tunisia 12. Research Idyll in Iowa City 13. Fort Apache and the Great Experiment 14. The New York Chapter: Two Kinds of Politics 15. World War II in the Army Air Corps 16. California and an Experiment in Private Practice 17. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology 18. Father and Son: From San Quentin to Steroids 19. Mother and Daughter: World Federalist and Equestrienne 20. The Glory Days of Academic Medicine 21. World Health Organization and World Class Editing 22. International Fellows and Fellowship 23. Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation 24. Ripened Souls Tend Their Orchard 25. The End of the Journey Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword (by G. Richard O'Connor, M.D.) Introduction 1. A Minnesota Childhood 2. A San Francisco Childhood 3. A Death in the Family 4. Genteel Poverty and a Pandemic 5. Meeting at Stanford 6. Courtship, a Wedding, and Victorian Values 7. Married and in Medical School 8. Frontier Medicine in Colorado 9. Building a Real Log Cabin 10. To Egypt in Search of Trachoma 11. Learning from a Nobel Laureate in Tunisia 12. Research Idyll in Iowa City 13. Fort Apache and the Great Experiment 14. The New York Chapter: Two Kinds of Politics 15. World War II in the Army Air Corps 16. California and an Experiment in Private Practice 17. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology 18. Father and Son: From San Quentin to Steroids 19. Mother and Daughter: World Federalist and Equestrienne 20. The Glory Days of Academic Medicine 21. World Health Organization and World Class Editing 22. International Fellows and Fellowship 23. Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation 24. Ripened Souls Tend Their Orchard 25. The End of the Journey Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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