Author: Virginia M Wright-Peterson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1681340011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects of patient care, education, and research. While these women contributed to the clinic’s origins and success, their roles have not been widely celebrated—until now. Women of Mayo Clinic traces those early days from the perspectives of more than forty women—nurses, librarians, social workers, mothers, sisters, and wives—who were instrumental in the world-renowned medical center’s development. Mother Alfred Moes persuaded Dr. William Worrall Mayo to take on the hospital project. Edith Graham was the first professionally trained nurse to work at the practice. Alice Magaw developed a national reputation administering anesthesia in the operating rooms there. Maud Mellish Wilson established the library and burnished the clinic’s standing through widely distributed publications about its innovations. Virginia Wright-Peterson tells the stories of these and other talented, dedicated pioneers through institutional records and clippings from the period, introducing a welcome new perspective on the history of both Mayo Clinic and women in medicine.
Author: Thomas M. Habermann
Publisher: Mayo Clinic
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781893005914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles William Mayo
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In addition to tracing the author's distinguished medical career from his first crude, but successful, operation on a pet dog at the age of nine, this autobiography also chronicles the history of the Mayo Clinic and its founding family.
Author: Helen Clapesattle
Publisher: Mayo Clinic
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9785555502827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Thompson Shepherd
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nearly half a century later, this son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers weaves generous doses of Celtic humor into his historical account of Mayo's evolution from simple frontier practice to cutting-edge clinic. From his perspective - as researcher, medical school dean, and esteemed member of the clinic's boards of governors, trustees, and development - Shepherd relates insights about explosive growth at Mayo during the past five decades. Recounting the dramatic changes he has not only witnessed firsthand but also helped bring about, he remarks on the colorful cast of colleagues and characters - from royalty to presidents to corporate moguls - with whom he met and worked at what is, arguably, the world's best-known medical institution."--Jacket.
Author: Frank N. Magill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 2946
ISBN-13: 1317740599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.