Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

by Arthur Ainsberg, Thea Cooper, Arthur Reuben Cooper

Book Overview

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312648707
• ISBN13: 9780312648701
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.7"