| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index. |
| Contents |
Baked British gentlemen / George Fordyce, England, 1770s -- Swallowing bags, bones, and tubes / Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italy, 1770s -- The sad story of laughing gas / William Morton and Horace Wells, United States, 1840s to 1870s]-- Daniel Carrión's deadly disease / Daniel Carrión, 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 to 1934 -- From ocean bottoms to mountaintops / John Scott Haldane and Jack Haldane, England, 1880s to 1940s -- Getting inside the heart / Werner Forssmann, Germany, 1920s to 1950s -- The fastest man on earth / John Paul Stapp, United States, 1940s and 1950s -- Locked in lost cave / Stefania Follini, United States, 1989 -- Conclusion -- Authors' note -- History's timetable -- Resources -- Quotation sources -- Photo credits Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| 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.
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Scientists -- Juvenile literature.
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Autoexperimentation -- history. |
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Medical Laboratory Personnel -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Juvenile Literature [Publication Type] |
| Added Author |
Boring, Mel, 1939-
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Mordan, C. B., illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0805073167 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780805073164 (hc : alk. paper) |
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