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

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle - Paperback

by Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thea Cooper, Arthur AinsbergPublish date:2011-10-25Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312611743ISBN-10:312611749UPC:9780312611743Book Category:Medical, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:History, Diseases & ConditionsBook Topic:DiabetesSize:8.31 x 5.56 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCXSBBJF31

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

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312611743ISBN-10:312611749UPC:9780312611743Book Category:Medical, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:History, Diseases & ConditionsBook Topic:DiabetesSize:8.31 x 5.56 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCXSBBJF31

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.


Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg

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