| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.2 7.0 101236. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-196) and index. |
| Contents |
Baked British gentleman [George Fordyce, England, 1770's] -- Swallowing bags, bones, and tubes [Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italy, 1770's] -- The sad story of laughing gas [William Morton and Horace Wells, United States, 1840's to 1870's] -- Daniel Carrion's deadly disease [Daniel Carrion, Peru, 1885] -- The swat heard 'round the world [Jesse Lazear, Cuba, 1900 and 1901] -- Night of the deadly blue glow [Marie and Pierre Curie, France, 1902-1934] -- From ocean bottoms to mountaintops [John Scott Haldane and Jack Haldane, England, 1880's to 1940's] -- Getting inside the heart [Werner Forssmann, Germany, 1920's to 1950's] -- The fastest man on earth [John Paul Stapp, United States, 1940's and 1950's] -- Locked in lost cave [Stefania Follini, United States 1989]. |
| Summary |
Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770s to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine. |
| Subject |
Self-experimentation in medicine -- Juvenile literature.
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Scientists -- Juvenile literature.
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Self-experimentation in medicine.
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Laboratory Personnel -- history.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile Literature [Publication Type].
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| Subject |
Self-experimentation in medicine -- history.
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Scientists.
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| Added Author |
Boring, Mel, 1939-
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Mordan, C. B., illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0805073167 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780805073164 hardcover alkaline paper |
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