Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic - Paperback
by Shan Woo Liu
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Availability:In StockContributor:Shan Woo Liu, Lisa Wee (Illustrator)Series:Curious MindsAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2024-10-15Pages:32
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mit Kids PressISBN-13:9781536238327ISBN-10:1536238325UPC:9781536238327Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Health & Daily Living, Technology, Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Inventions, Science & TechnologySize:8.80 x 7.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC69YY49YJ
Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic
"Mother and daughter coauthors, both descendants of their subject, trace the course of Wu's career. . . . Chockablock with timely themes and connections to recent world-shaking events." --Kirkus Reviews More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it--among them Wu Lien-teh, who had...
Series: Curious Minds
Audience: Ages 4-8
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mit Kids PressISBN-13:9781536238327ISBN-10:1536238325UPC:9781536238327Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Health & Daily Living, Technology, Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Inventions, Science & TechnologySize:8.80 x 7.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC69YY49YJ
Shan Woo Liu is the great-granddaughter of Wu Lien-teh. She is an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Masked Hero, her publishing debut, was inspired by her daughter Kaili's first-grade project about Dr. Wu, written in early 2020. Both mother and daughter are proud to share the story of Dr. Wu and help...
Publisher: Mit Kids Press
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