Dead Ends!, 9781547615025
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Medical mishaps, bizarre treatments, and surprising science await!
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Dead Ends!

flukes, flops & failures that sparked medical marvels

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    27 April 2026

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Summary

Medicine’s Most Fascinating Failures: A Journey Down Dead Ends

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine’s most fascinating failures and dead ends.

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine’s most astonishing “dead ends.” Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmfu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781547615025
ISBN-10:1547615028
Author:Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury YA
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:27 April 2026
Weight:454g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

* Plague-Busters! is chock full of awesomely appalling medical history that is sure to delight audiences, and possibly even spark interest for some future pathologists. * Shelf Awareness, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! Engaging, informative, but also gross. * SLJ Reviews, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! *Fans of Albee’s Poison will feel right at home with this darkly comedic piece of nonfiction. * The Horn Book, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! *A lively illustration of the perils of illness in the olden days. * Kirkus Reviews, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! *An entertaining, accessible, and satisfyingly disgusting history of six diseases … an equally worthy choice for researchers and browsing pathologists. * Booklist, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS! Meticulously researched and compulsively readable. * Publishers Weekly (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER An excellent biography of a genuine miracle worker. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER *This book is riveting. It is gruesome but it is also uplifting … What a triumph. * Mary Roach, author of FUZZ and STIFF, on THE FACEMAKER *Atmospheric … The story it tells is one of abiding fascination. * Jennifer Senior, The New York Times, on THE BUTCHERING ART *

About The Author

Lindsey Fitzharris

Lindsey Fitzharris is a New York Times bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker, and the co-author of Plague-Busters! She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and medicine from Oxford University, and regularly writes for major publications. She is also the writer and host of the Smithsonian TV series The Curious Life and Death of….

Adrian Teal is a caricaturist, cartoonist, fine artist, and illustrator. He is the co-author and illustrator of Plague-Busters! His work has appeared in numerous TV shows, including Spitting Image and Big Heads. He has produced art for publications such as the Sunday Telegraph, the Times, the Guardian, Time Out, and the Daily Mail.

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