Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever / Jim Murphy
- Author:
- Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022
- Published:
- Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- In the "dog house" -- The professor and his assistant -- Surrounded by failure -- Answered and unanswered questions -- The search -- "All the world is against it" -- "Vivien, you'd better come down here" -- Then what happened?
- Summary:
- 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 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 nonfiction narrative.
- Subject(s):
- Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985—Juvenile literature
- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964—Juvenile literature
- Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986—Juvenile literature
- Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985
- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964
- Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986
- Tetralogy of Fallot—Juvenile literature
- Surgeons—Maryland—Biography—Juvenile literature
- Cardiovascular system—Surgery—Juvenile literature
- Heart—Surgery—Juvenile literature
- Children—Surgery—History—Juvenile literature
- African American surgeons—Biography—Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Surgeons—Maryland—Biography
- Circulatory system—Surgery
- Heart—Surgery
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780547821832 hardcover
0547821832 hardcover - Interest Age:
- Ages 9-12.
- Audience Notes:
- Middle School.
1170 Lexile - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-122) and index.
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