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Author Yount, Lisa.

Title Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas : mending children's hearts / Lisa Yount.

Imprint New York : Chelsea House, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Non-Fiction  617.41 YOUNT    ---  Available
Description xviii, 127 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Trailblazers in science and technology
Trailblazers in science and technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas recounts the lives and careers of three medical pioneers--a white male surgeon (Blalock), a white female cardiologist (Taussig), and an African-American male laboratory technician (Thomas)--who combined their skills in 1944 to create a groundbreaking operation that not only saved the lives and health of thousands of children born with heart defects but also made surgeons realize for the first time that surgery on living hearts was possible. In addition to describing this operation and the other accomplishments of these individuals, the book highlights the social and personal conflicts that shaped and sometimes hindered their work and that of other scientists during that era.
Contents Three beginnings -- Lifesaving research -- Chief of surgery -- Blue babies -- Royal progress -- Heart surgery comes of age -- Late honors.
Study Program Accelerated Reader RL 9.7 6.0 PCMS
Subject Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964.
Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986.
Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985.
Heart surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Pediatric cardiology -- History.
ISBN 9781604136586
1604136588

 
    
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