Bibliograph

Guinea pig scientists, bold self-experimenters in science and medicine, Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring ; with illustrations by C.B. Mordan

Type

Label

Guinea pig scientists, bold self-experimenters in science and medicine, Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring ; with illustrations by C.B. Mordan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Guinea pig scientists

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55518216

Responsibility statement

Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring ; with illustrations by C.B. Mordan

Sub title

bold self-experimenters in science and medicine

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification