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Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever
By Jim Murphy
Edition
By Jim Murphy
Hardcover edition
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Imprint Clarion ISBN9780547821832
Awards and Honors Horn Book Fanfare List: Best Books of 2015, Nonfiction<br> <i>Booklist</i> Best Young Adult Books of 2015<br> Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2015, Informational Books for Older Readers<br> 2016 Winner, Notable Books for a Global Society<br> 2016 CCBC Choices–Historical People, Places, and Events<br> <i>Booklist</i> 2016 Top 10 Books for Youth, Biographies<br> Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, STEMBreakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever
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9780547821832J
1944: Vivien Thomas, Alfred Blalock, and Helen Taussig—a black medical assistant and two white doctors—saved a baby who had a heart defect. Thomas developed the procedure, but only the doctors earned fame. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs, diagrams, reproductions of paintings, and historical documents.
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