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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index. |
| Contents |
Early Houston: a magnet for entrepreneurs in business and medicine -- Building the fortune: Anderson, Clayton & Company -- The legal team: Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates -- Legacy: creating the M.D. Anderson Foundation -- Bold vision: first steps toward building a medical center -- Building blocks: Baylor University College of Medicine -- "One of the greatest medical centers ever developed" -- A building boom in the Texas Medical Center -- The biggest medical center in the world -- Epilogue: the enduring legacy of Monroe Dunaway Anderson -- Appendix 1. M.D. Anderson foundation trustees, 1936-2013 -- Appendix 2. Texas Medical Center member institutions. |
| Summary |
At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing, and schools of dentistry, public health, and pharmacology occupy the thousand-acre campus. But none of this would exist if not for the generosity and vision of Monroe Dunaway Anderson, who, in 1936, established the foundation that bears his name. The M.D. Anderson Foundation ultimatel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anderson, Monroe D. (Monroe Dunaway), 1873-1939.
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Anderson, Monroe D. (Monroe Dunaway), 1873-1939. |
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Texas Medical Center -- History.
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Texas Medical Center. |
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History. |
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M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) -- History.
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M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) |
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Medical centers -- Texas -- Houston -- History.
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Medical centers. |
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Texas -- Houston. |
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Houston (Tex.) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kellar, William Henry, 1952- author. Enduring legacy. First edition 9781623491314 (DLC) 2013035948 |
| ISBN |
9781623491406 (electronic book) |
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1623491401 (electronic book) |
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9781306799676 (electronic book) |
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1306799678 (electronic book) |
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1623491312 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781623491314 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781623491314 |
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