Download or read book Alfalfa to Ivy written by Joseph B. Martin and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised to critique. And it is the human story of Martin?s journey from humble origins to worldly esteem that makes Alfalfa to Ivy a compelling narrative for non-specialists as well as academics and professionals.