A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

by Craig Alan Miller
A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

by Craig Alan Miller

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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190073961
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Craig A. Miller, MD, is an author and vascular surgeon who lives in Columbus, Ohio. His books have been published in several languages and editions. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ohio State University Medical Heritage Center and a Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

Table of Contents

1. Lake Charles: 1908-1926 2. Tulane University 1926-35 3. Strasbourg, Heidelberg and New Orleans 1935-1942 4. Washington, D.C. and New Orleans 1942-48 5. Houston 1948-1951 6. Houston 1951-1956 7. Houston 1956-1960 8. Houston 1960-1969 9. Houston 1969 The Artificial Heart 10. Houston 1970-1989 11. Houston 1990-2008 12. Epilogue
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