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Author Dendy, Leslie A., 1946-

Title Guinea pig scientists : bold self-experimenters in science and medicine / Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring ; with illustrations by C.B. Mordan.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2005.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J616.027 DEN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA616.027 D411    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA616.027 D411 c.2  Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 616 DENDY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J616 DENDY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J HEALTH 616.027 DEN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department  J 616.027 DENDY    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Children's Department  J 616 DEN    Check Shelf
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.
Scientists -- Juvenile literature.
Self-experimentation in medicine.
Laboratory Personnel -- history.
Genre/Form Juvenile Literature [Publication Type].
Subject Self-experimentation in medicine -- history.
Scientists.
Added Author Boring, Mel, 1939-
Mordan, C. B., illustrator.
ISBN 0805073167 hardcover alkaline paper
9780805073164 hardcover alkaline paper
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