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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Presents four true stories about people who have overcome extreme medical problems, including the Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim, twins joined at the head who were successfully separated in 2003, and Christopher Reeve, the actor who regained some motor and sensory function five years after an accident left him a quadriplegic.
2) Soulminder
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy--and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved his son as he wavered on the edge of death. Sommers's vision is to capture a dying person's life essence and hold it safely in stasis while physicians heal the body from injury or disease. Years of experimentation finally end in success--but...
Series
Studies in health technology and informatics volume Volume 259
Publisher
IOS Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of...
Author
Series
Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine volume Number 71
Publisher
Woodhead Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Medical innovation at the crossroads volume 5
Publisher
National Academy Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Publisher
American College of Gastroenterology
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book reflects on artifacts and trends in the evolution of modern medicine and finds lessons and insights from medical antiques that remain fascinating and relevant today. With a keen eye for fascinating images and a gift for vivid and erudite descriptions, Dr. Robert Kravetz reflects on artifacts and trends in the evolution of modern medicine and finds lessons and insights from medical antiques that remain fascinating and relevant today."--Publisher...
Series
Frontiers in clinical drug research volume 1
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Series
Studies in health technology and informatics volume 145
Publisher
IOS Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Series
Frontiers in clinical drug research volume Volume 2
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Pte Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thousands of people get organ transplants every year, but the need greatly outweighs the supply of organs. What if scientists could grow organs to help make people well? The technology isn't so far fetched anymore. Readers learn all about how this could be possible, as well as work in areas like genetics, and much more in the riveting pages of this book. Chock full of STEM topics, including careers in the medical, research, and technology fields,...
