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Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever - Hardcover

Murphy, Jim

 
9780547821832: Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0547821832 ISBN 13: 9780547821832
Verlag: Clarion Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions.
The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jim Murphy's nonfiction books have received numerous awards, among them two Newbery Honors, the Sibert Medal, three Orbis Pictus awards, the Margaret A. Edwards award, the James Madison Book Award, and a National Book Award nomination. Born and raised in New Jersey, Jim lives in Maplewood, NJ, with his family. 
jimmurphybooks.com.

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Verlag
Clarion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0547821832
ISBN 13 
9780547821832
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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