Seeking the light : the lives of Phillips and Ruth Lee Thygeson, pioneers in the prevention of blindness / Beret E. Strong ; foreword by G. Richard O'Connor.

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2008], ©2008.

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

A Minnesota childhood -- A San Francisco childhood -- A death in the family -- Genteel poverty and a pandemic -- Meeting at Stanford -- Courtship, a wedding, and Victorian values -- Married and in medical school -- Frontier medicine in Colorado -- Building a real log cabin -- To Egypt in search of trachoma -- Learning from a Nobel laureate in Tunisia -- Research idyll in Iowa City -- Fort Apache and the great experiment -- The New York chapter : two kinds of politics -- World War II in the Army Air Corps --

California and an experiment in private practice -- The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology -- Father and son : from San Quentin to steroids -- Mother and daughter : world federalist and equestrienne -- The glory days of academic medicine -- World Health Organization and world class editing -- International fellows and fellowship -- Lake Tahoe and the Alta California Eye Research Foundation -- Ripened souls tend their orchard -- The end of the journey.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.