The Disease Fighters

Title: The Disease Fighters

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Author(s):
Nathan Aaseng
Recommended ages:
Young Adult
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine and health

Description

In The Disease Fighters , great medical research discoveries are outlined. These eight vignettes seem more like mystery stories than factual narratives. Beginning with Robert Kock and his work to cure tuberculosis (1905 Nobel Prize) through Enders, Weller, and Robbins and their experi ments leading to the development of a polio vaccine (1954), Aaseng reveals the brilliant schemes, lost opportuni ties, and strange turns of fate which have yielded the miracles of 20th-Cen tury medicine. The approa

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