Medical Mishaps: Learning from Bad Ideas

by Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan

Overview

See some of the world's most messed-up medical mishaps at a microscopic level. Find out how each procedure, tool, or surgery failed, the basic science that was missed, and what doctors learned from their mistakes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496666222
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2020
Series:	Fantastic Fails
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is an author and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. She loves exploring history and science and has written over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books and graphic novels. Her books include The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci and Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research. Elizabeth lives with her family and pet schnoodle and loves board games, birding, and baking. She’s a lifelong runner and avid community scientist.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Not Funny!

The Four Humors 4

Chapter 2 What's that Smell?

Urinalysis 8

Chapter 3 Bloody Business

Bloodletting 12

Chapter 4 Shaping Isn't Caring

Blood Transfusions 16

Chapter 5 A Real Headache!

Trepanning 20

Chapter 6 Attacking from the Inside Out

Germ Theory to Vaccinations 24

Chapter 7 Moldy Medicine

Penicillin 28

Chapter 8 Shocking Sickness

Electric Therapy 32

Chapter 9 Just Zap It

Radiation Therapy 36

Chapter 10 My Head Hurts!

Lobotomies 40

Medicine Moves Along 44

Glossary 46

Reap More 47

Internet Sites 47

Index 48

Interviews

Useful for at-level third or fourth graders, or for hi-low readers in middle school reading at a third or fourth grade level; High interest topic ties to social studies curriculum; Inspires growth mindset