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Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever

By Jim Murphy
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Imprint Clarion ISBN

9780547821832

Awards and Honors Horn Book Fanfare List: Best Books of 2015, Nonfiction
Booklist Best Young Adult Books of 2015
Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2015, Informational Books for Older Readers
2016 Winner, Notable Books for a Global Society
2016 CCBC Choices–Historical People, Places, and Events
Booklist 2016 Top 10 Books for Youth, Biographies
Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, STEM

Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved “Blue Babies” and Changed Medicine Forever

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Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Cruelty to Animals,Violence: Graphic Descriptions

1944: Vivien Thomas, Alfred Blalock, and Helen Taussig—a black medical assistant and two white doctors—saved a baby who had a heart defect. Thomas developed the procedure, but only the doctors earned fame. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs, diagrams, reproductions of paintings, and historical documents.
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