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Enduring legacy

Kellar, William Henry, 1952-

Enduring legacy the M.D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center / [electronic resource] : William Henry Kellar ; foreword by George H.W. Bush and James A. Baker III. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781623491406 1623491401

Subjects--Personal Names:
Anderson, Monroe D. 1873-1939.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
M.D. Anderson Foundation (Houston, Tex.)--History.
Texas Medical Center--History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical centers--History.--Texas--Houston

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Houston (Tex.)--History.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA982.H62 / T49

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1109764/1411