A Heart Afire
Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
$75.54
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2024
Summary
A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children’s heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.
In A Heart Afire, Patricia Meisol renders a moving portrait of the indomitable pediatrician and global patient activist Helen Taussig (1898-1986), who famously gathered and publicized evidence linking thalidomide to birth defects, leading to US drug safety laws. Taussig also developed the Blalock-Taussig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262048521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262048523 |
| Author: | Patricia Meisol |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 584g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 159mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Patricia Meisol
Patricia Meisol is a narrative nonfiction writer and formal journalist who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize multiple times. She previously served in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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