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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 - a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections - all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Endocrinology

• Full title: Breakthrough
• Author: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780312611743
• ISBN: 0312611749
• ID: 04875536
• Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 136 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2011

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