Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
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Book Details
Author(s)
Murphy, Jim
Publisher
Clarion Books
ISBN / ASIN
0547821832
ISBN-13
9780547821832
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
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.
