A time for all things
the life of Michael E. DeBakey
Bände/Inhalt:
- Foreword / by George P. Noon - Foreword / by James S. T. Yao and Roger T. Gregory - Preface - 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: 1942-1948 - 5. Houston: 1948-1951 - 6. Houston: 1951-1956: decadus mirabilis, part 1 - 7. Houston: 1956-1960: decadus mirabilis, part 2 - 8. Houston: 1960-1969 - 9. Houston: 1969: the artificial heart - 10. Houston: 1970-1989 - 11. Houston: 1990-2008 - Epilogue
- 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.