Bibliograph

Breakthrough!, how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever, Jim Murphy

Type

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Breakthrough!, how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever, Jim Murphy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Breakthrough!

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jim Murphy

Sub title

how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever

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 painstakingly 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 compelling nonfiction narrative

Target audience

juvenile

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