Texas Medical History E-Books
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Download Frontmatter: Foreword, Preface, and Acknowledgments (447 KB)
Download Ch.1 Autopsy of a Bloddy Era (681 KB)
Download Ch. 2 A Profession Struggles; A Specialty Emerges (614 KB)
Download Ch. 3 Education at Last (1.5 MB)
Download Ch. 4 Acceptance is Slow (947 KB)
Download Ch. 5 The Laboratory Comes of Age (1.0 MB)
Download Ch. 6 A Society is Born; A Specialty Matures (3.9 MB)
Download Ch. 7 War Intervenes (7.1 MB)
Download Ch. 8 Pathology Sweeps Across Texas (3.2 MB)
Download Ch. 9 "Happy Days" Merge With Troubled Times (980 KB)
Download Ch. 10 Specialization, Automation, and Regulation (2.2 MB)
Download Ch. 11 ANew Milieu for Medicine (928 KB)
Download Ch. 12 The Doctor's Doctor (750 KB)
Download Appendices (798 KB)
Download Endnotes and Index (2.5 MB)
Description
The History of Pathology in Texas is the study of the changes of disease in Texas from the frontier days to the 1990s. Marilyn Miller Baker wrote the book for the Texas Society of Pathologists. The book was published in 1996 with a forward by Vernie A. Stembridge, MD, the Ashbel Smith Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The book covers the story of pathology from the "performance of crude autopsies" on the frontier through the emergence of bacteriology and immunology and beyond.
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Texas Society of Pathologists
Keywords
Autopsy, College of American Pathologists, Harris County Medical Society, Pathology, Texas Medical Association, Texas Society of Pathologists
Disciplines
Diseases | Medicine and Health Sciences | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Recommended Citation
Baker, Marilyn Miller, "The History of Pathology in Texas" (1996). Texas Medical History E-Books. 11.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/ebooks/11