Guinea pig scientists bold self-experimenters in science and medicine
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.
| Main Author: | Dendy, Leslie A., 1946- |
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| Other Authors: | Boring, Mel, 1939-, Mordan, C. B. (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Henry Holt & Co.,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Awards: |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0805073167 (hc : alk. paper) : |
| Author Notes: |
Leslie Dendy has been teaching biology and chemistry for nearly thirty years. She is the author of Tracks, Scats, and Signs and lives with her husband in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mel Boring is the author of a number of nonfiction picture books, as well as a novel. He lives in Rockford, Iowa, with his family. C. B. Mordan is the illustrator of several books for young readers, including Lost: A Story in String . He lives near Kansas City, Missouri. |