Saving Lives, Training Caregivers, Making Discoveries

by Burns, Chester R.

• ISBN13: 9780876111871
• ISBN10: 0876111878
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn

Summary

In 1881 the voting citizens of Texas located their state's first university medical school on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Some probably wished to keep sick people away from the mainland. Others knew that the residents of Galveston, the state's largest city at that time, had enthusiastically embraced the best traditions of American medicine throughout their city's history.

Voters honored these efforts by granting permission to establish the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), a feat that required ten years of decisive struggles. The first medical students finally walked the steps of the Ashbel Smith Building (Old Red) in October 1891. After more than one hundred years, including the great storm of 1900 that ravaged Galveston and took more than six thousand lives, this pioneering institution is still flourishing as a major academic health center devoted to saving lives, training caregivers, and making discoveries that improve health care.

Saving Lives, Training Caregivers, Making Discoveries is a comprehensive introduction to this ins

Author Biography

Chester R. Burns, M.D., Ph.D., is the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Medical History in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he has taught for thirty-three years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Beginnings and Early Years	9	(32)
The City's Rich Medical Heritage	9	(4)
Texans Select Galveston	13	(2)
Ten Years to Start	15	(6)
The First Decade	21	(20)
Political Networks and Executive Leaders	41	(34)
First Relocation Frenzy	42	(4)
Edward Randall, John Spies, and Revolution	46	(8)
Order and Progress	54	(7)
Chauncey Leake
Planning and Reflexibility	61	(2)
John Truslow
The Blocker--Levin Boom Eras	63	(7)
A Research Focus	70	(5)
Thomas N. James
Economic Resources and Business Offices	75	(28)
Operating Income and Business Personnel: 1901--1940	75	(5)
Operating Income and Business Personnel: 1941--1968	80	(10)
Operating Income and Business Personnel: 1969--1991	90	(13)
Campus Development: Buildings and Caretakers	103	(34)
The Carter Era	105	(2)
Edward Randall and the Sealy & Smith Foundation	107	(2)
Federal Dollars for Campus Buildings	109	(1)
Chauncey Leake's Dreams	110	(4)
John Truslow, Don Walker, and Comprehensive Planning	114	(2)
Blocker's Boom Years	116	(5)
Levin's Boom Years	121	(5)
Tom James's Imprints	126	(2)
Campus Caretakers	128	(3)
A Centennial Year Walk	131	(6)
Caring and Curing	137	(44)
From Acute to Chronic Diseases, 1901--1940	138	(6)
From Penicillin to Home Dialysis, 1941--1968	144	(15)
From Medicare to AIDS, 1969--1991	159	(22)
Learning and Teaching	181	(58)
The School of Medicine	181	(24)
The School of Pharmacy	205	(1)
The School of Nursing	206	(13)
The School of Allied Health Sciences	219	(7)
The Graduate School of the Biomedical Sciences	226	(6)
The Institutes	232	(7)
Inquiry and Research	239	(36)
Before Chauncey Leake, 1900--1942	240	(7)
Between Leake and Blocker, 1942--1964	247	(12)
From Blocker to James, 1964--1991	259	(16)
Identities, Rituals, Images---On Campus	275	(42)
Patients: Bonds of Suffering and Relief	276	(2)
Corporate Executives: Bonds of Power and Money	278	(3)
Teachers: Bonds of Authority	281	(6)
Students: Bonds of Metamorphosis	287	(22)
Support Staff: Bonds of Jobs	309	(4)
Storytellers: Bonds of Time and Meaning	313	(4)
Identities, Rituals, Images---Off Campus	317	(40)
Alumni: Bonds of Loyalty and Reputation	317	(15)
Professional Networks: Bonds of Leadership and Reputation	332	(14)
Peer Reviews: Bonds of Accountability and Reputation	346	(6)
Storytellers: Bonds of Time and Meaning	352	(5)
A Centennial Perspective	357	(32)
Quarter-Century Landmarks	358	(15)
The Centennial Years	373	(3)
Facing the Twenty-first Century	376	(13)
Appendices	389	(82)
Notes	471	(138)
Bibliography	609	(16)
Index	625	(35)
About the Author	660