Overview: Former Chancellor Emeritus William T. Butler, M.D. has compiled a history of Baylor College of Medicine − Arming for Battle Against Disease − covering the 74-year period since the move from Dallas to Houston in 1943. Presented as a five-volume set, each book contains more than 300 pages of detailed text and historic photographs. Each volume costs $35.00 including postage, and will be sent to your preferred shipping address.
Volume 1: Rebirth in Houston covers the move to Houston; the development of a modern medical and graduate curriculum under Dean Stanley Olson; and the rise of research including cardiovascular breakthroughs of the 1950s and 1960s.
Volume 2: Independence describes the administrative turmoil of the 1960s that led to the election of Michael E. DeBakey as President; the separation from Baylor University; the Partnership with the State of Texas; and the challenges and advances under DeBakey’s presidency.
Volume 3: Coming of Age includes efforts to organize clinical practice and strengthen hospital affiliations; the presidential transition from DeBakey to Butler; institutional planning declaring the primacy of research; and major expansion of the core research campus beginning in the 1980s.
Volume 4: Advancing the Vision describes the financially tumultuous 1980s; investing in Genetics and the Human Genome; development of high school-through-medical school programs; troubled joint planning with the Methodist Hospital; and milestone events from 1996 until 2010.
Volume 5: Maturity as a Health Sciences University describes the split from Methodist Hospital; developing the Baylor Clinic; Butler's Interim Presidency; stabilizing finances; the arrival of Paul Klotman as President; centralizing the administration; and full development of the McNair Campus.