Breakthrough

Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2011
Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-312-61174-3 (ISBN)

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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases - a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections - all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world.

THEA COOPER is an author, playwright, editor and teacher. ARTHUR AINSBERG is an author and financial industry veteran whose successful battle with Hodgkin's disease sparked his interest in medical history.

Zusatzinfo	one b&w photo insert
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Diabetologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-312-61174-9 / 0312611749
ISBN-13	978-0-312-61174-3 / 9780312611743
Zustand	Neuware