Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal

Dead Ends! (MP3-Download)

Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels Ungekürzte Lesung. 160 Min.
Sprecher: Johns, Hunter / Illustrator: Teal, Adrian

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal, read by Hunter Johns 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 harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better. Enjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body—from brain, to heart, to limbs—during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris will guide you through centuries of medical mistakes, festooned with riveting facts and pitch-perfect humor. Celebrate the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them. This fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Children's Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781547615049
• Artikelnr.: 74335880

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Fitzharris is the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker. Dr. Fitzharris, who holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from Oxford University, regularly writes for the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, the Guardian, the Lancet, and other major publications. She is also the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series The Curious Life and Death of….drlindseyfitzharris.com

Rezensionen

* Macabre, madcap, and surprisingly wholesome in its positivity.