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

Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved
Jim Murphy
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Paperback
h229 x 178mm - 144pg
19 Nov 2019 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780358094258
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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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780358094258
Published: 19 Nov 2019
Published In: United States
Imprint: Clarion Books
Publisher: Clarion Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 178mm
Pages: 144

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