| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| 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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M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) -- History
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M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) |
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Texas Medical Center |
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Medical centers -- Texas -- Houston -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Medical centers
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Houston (Tex.) -- History
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Texas -- Houston
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781623491406 |
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1623491401 |
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9781306799676 |
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1306799678 |
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1623491312 |
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9781623491314 |
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