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Author Morrison, Heather S., author.

Title Inventors of health and medical technology / Heather S. Morrison.

Publication Info. New York : Cavendish Square, 2016.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA610.92 MORRISON    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series Designing engineering solutions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Patricia Bath: inventor of laser cataract surgery -- Bessie Blount: inventor of self-feeding apparatus for the disabled -- Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen: inventors of DNA cloning -- Keith Campbell and Ian Wilmut: inventors of cloning technology -- Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield: inventors of the CT scanner -- Raymond Damadian: inventor of magnetic resonance imaging -- Charles Drew: inventor of the blood bank -- Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe: inventor of human in vitro fertilization -- Ashok Gadgil: inventor of the ultraviolet water purification system -- Meredith Gourdine: inventor of a device for purifying the air -- Wilson Greatbatch: inventor of the pacemaker -- Robert Hooke: inventor of various scientific instruments -- Edward Jenner: inventor of the smallpox vaccine -- Percy Lavon Julian: inventor of the glaucoma treatment method -- Dean Kamen: inventor of the autosyringe, Ibot, and the segway -- William Morton: inventor of anesthesia -- Louis Pasteur: inventor of pasteurization.
Subject Medical technology -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Medical technology -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Medicine -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Medicine -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject Inventors. (OCoLC)fst00978052
Medical technology. (OCoLC)fst01014742
Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
ISBN 9781502606587 (library bound)
1502606585 (library bound)
9781502606594 (ebook)
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