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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"This absorbing book by two distinguished physicians is the first to describe the most significant medical discoveries throughout history, bringing to life the scientific pioneers responsible for them and the excitement and frustrations that surrounded the final achievements. What have been the most important medical breakthroughs of our time? This book is the first to tell the inside story behind humankind's ten most monumental discoveries in the...
5) Medicine
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribners
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Short biographies of more than thirty men and women who excelled in the field of medical science. Includes Hippocrates, Harvey, Ehrlich, Roentgen, Blackwell, Freud, and Salk.
6) Tu Youyou
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This "biography for the earliest readers ... examines the life of Tu Youyou in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Tumblehome Learning, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
" ... Presents the stories of seventeen women of science working in seven countries over a timespan of more than three centuries. From a scandalous French noblewoman who introduced Newton's ideas to France to the African American granddaughter of slaves who pioneered the field of chemotherapy, from a mathematical prodigy who retired from the world to practice charity to the daughter of a Nobel laureate determined to follow in her mother's footsteps,...
Author
Publisher
Quill Mark Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beth Armstrong, a Denver biomedical scientist, wrestles with the impossible choice of saving her sabotaged, groundbreaking cure for multiple sclerosis or honoring an obligation to care for her cantankerous old aunt. Playing nursemaid ranks just a notch above catching the plague on Beth's scale, yet her ex-flapper aunt would prefer catching anything deadly to losing her independence under the hands of her obsessive-compulsive niece. While a murderous...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind-a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology-with his own personal quest to understand memory. A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior,...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over...