HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Summary
More Content
Subjects
Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985.
Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964.
Johns Hopkins Hospital -- History.
Surgeons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
African American surgeons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
African Americans in medicine -- History.
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- History.
Surgery, Experimental -- History.
Shock.
Browse Catalog
by title:
Partners of the hear...
MARC Display
Partners of the heart [digital videodisc] / a Duke Media and Spark Media production ; WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by Andrea Kalin ; recreation sequences directed by Bill Duke ; written by Lou Potter and Andrea Kalin ; consulting producer, Skip Coblyn ; senior producer [for American experience], Mark Samels ; executive producer [for American experience], Margaret Drain.
[Alexandria, Va.?] : PBS Home Video, [2003]
Subjects
Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985.
Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964.
Johns Hopkins Hospital -- History.
Surgeons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
African American surgeons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
African Americans in medicine -- History.
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- History.
Surgery, Experimental -- History.
Shock.
ISBN:
0780642074
9780780642072
Description:
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Contents:
Special features: Early years : Pearl High ; Living with segregation -- Breakthroughs : Vivien's Baltimore ; Reflections on being blue ; The advent of heart surgery -- Legacy : Breaking down the walls of medicine ; Resistance : pioneers in civil rights -- Today : Behind the story ; More on the Web.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Tells the story Vivien Thomas, an African American determined to make something of himself during the time of segregation, and his relationship with Alfred Blalock, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thomas, initially hired as a janitor, was soon promoted by Blalock to learn the complexities of surgery, eventually becoming a trainer of novice surgeons and a major force in the advancement of African Americans in medicine.
Audience:
"Not rated"--Container.
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.