The Flowering of an Idea: A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

by Alan M. Chesney

Book Overview

How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? Historians may debate the issue but playwrights can imagine it. Here, Alan M. Chesneydares to go where doctors and historians may not. A one-act play, The Flowering of an Idea presents in four scenes "an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born." The dramatis personae include Johns Hopkins himself; the London-based banker George Peabody; Daniel Coit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894328
• ISBN13: 9780801894329
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher