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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Author
Publisher
Bluewood Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Herbs as medicine, eye surgery, the hippocratic oath, acupuncture, dissection, human anatomy, dressing wounds and stitches, the circulatory system, the microscope, parasites, the pulse watch, scurvy, the science of pathology, respiration, smallpox vaccinations, the nervous system, the stethoscope, blood transfusions, public health, general anesthetic, the science of epidemiology, preventing infection, the opthalmoscope, the hypodermic syringe, cholera,...
11) Doctor
Author
Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning Library
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides an easy-to-read explanation of what a doctor does.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them.
In this searching exposé, the recent hysteria over childhood vaccinations and their alleged link to autism becomes a cautionary tale of bad science amplified by media sensationalism.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong-with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
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