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Guinea pig scientists : bold self-experimenters in science and medicine
Record details
- ISBN: 1250050650 (sc.)
- ISBN: 9781250050656 (sc.)
- ISBN: 0805073167
- ISBN: 9780805073164
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Physical Description:
viii, 213 pages : illustrations, portraits., photographs ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes experiments done by Santorio Santorio, Rene de Reaumur, George Fordyce, Daniel Carrion, Jesse Lazear, Yellow Fever Board, Jack Haldane, C.H.T. Townsend, Helen Spurway, John Paul Stapp, Stefania Follini, Koichiro Fujita, Maurizio Montalbini and others. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196), time-line, and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Illustrations by C.B. Mordan. |
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| Genre: | Juvenile works. Young adult literature. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bayside Middle School | 616.027 DEN (Text) | 21050000432336 | Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
