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Author Kellar, William Henry, 1952- author.

Title Enduring legacy : the M.D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center / William Henry Kellar ; foreword by George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker III
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2014]
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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.
SUBJECT Anderson, Monroe D. (Monroe Dunaway), 1873-1939 fast
Subject Texas Medical Center -- History
M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) -- History
SUBJECT M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.) fast
Texas Medical Center fast
Subject Medical centers -- Texas -- Houston -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medical centers
SUBJECT Houston (Tex.) -- History
Subject Texas -- Houston
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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