Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine - Softcover

Mel Boring

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250050650 ISBN 13: 9781250050656

Publisher: Square Fish, 2014

Synopsis

Who are these guinea pig scientists? Searching for clues to some of science's and medicine's bigger (and sometimes stranger) questions, they are all the men and women who devoted their lives to help find the answers. Spanning from the 1770s to the present - and uncovering the science behind digestion, the spread of yellow fever, the development of the first heart catheter, and more - their ten stories are at once scientifically detailed and fascinatingly personal.

About this title

Review:

* An easy and interesting read. . . . These biographies are provocative with underpinnings of intrigue for discovering what is yet unknown. --School Library Journal, starred review Ten enthralling case studies of scientists from the past several centuries who became their own test subjects--with occasionally fatal results. . . . Riveting reading. --Booklist, starred review

About the Author:

Leslie Dendy has been teaching biology and chemistry for nearly thirty years. She is the author of Tracks, Scats, and Signs and lives with her husband in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mel Boring is the author of a number of nonfiction picture books, as well as a novel. He lives in Rockford, Iowa, with his family. C. B. Mordan is the illustrator of several books for young readers, including Lost: A Story in String. He lives near Kansas City, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: Square Fish
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250050650
• ISBN 13: 9781250050656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224