Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock
Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to the incredible genius and determination of the first black man to hold a professional position at one of America's premier medical institutions.\ Thomas's dreams of attending medical school were dashed when the Depression hit. After spending...
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Inspiration for the Emmy Award-winning HBO film Something the Lord Made and the award-winning PBS documentary Partners of the Heart.
Foreword by Mark M. Ravitch, M.D.\ Preface Acknowledgements\ PART ONE. THE VANDERBILT YEARS PART TWO. THE HOPKINS YEARS PART THREE. RECOGNITION\ References Name Index Subject Index
\ From the Publisher"The fascinating tale of an extraordinary black man's involvement, growth, and final recognition in a white man's world of surgical research and medical practice. . . . At the same time, an insightful firsthand account of the genesis of some of the pioneering research into the nature of shock and some of the early procedures in cardiovascular surgery."—Journal of the History of Medicine\ \ \
