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Author:
Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Title:
Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm workier to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas.
Publisher:
University of California Press,
Copyright Date:
2012, ©2011
Description:
317 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Neurosurgeons--Mexico--Biography.
Neurosurgeons--United States--Biography.
Mexican Americans--Mexico--Biography.
Migrant labor--Mexico--Biography.
Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Mexican Americans.
Migrant labor.
Neurosurgeons.
Mexico.
United States.
Biographies.
Other Authors:
Rivas, Mim Eichler.
Contents:
Starry nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Courting destiny -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules and when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
Summary:
Tells the life story of Alfredo Qui?ones-Hinojosa from impoverished childhood in a tiny village in Mexico to illegal immigrant, American citizen, student at the University of California, on to Harvard Medical School, and becoming an internationally renowned neurosurgeon.
ISBN:
9780520274563
0520274563
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1039122178
Locations:
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

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