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Breakthrough! : How Three People Saved Blue Babies and Changed Medicine Forever

by Jim Murphy

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2015
ISBN-13 9780547821832
ISBN-10 0547821832
Class Copyright
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject Biography & Autobiography;Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 47 MB
Number of Pages 144
Shelf No. KX904
Grade Range 5 - 7
Ages 10 - 12
Lexile 1170L