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The Autumn Ghost

Autor Hannah Wunsch
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iun 2023
  • A gripping story of the scientific breakthrough crucial to modern medical care: explores the polio epidemic that led to the invention of intensive care and ventilators, which weren’t created until 1952. 
  • Will appeal to readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Ghost Map, and other in-depth investigations into the epidemics and medical breakthroughs that have shaped our lives today. 
  • Explores the reality of a “forgotten” disease: polio epidemics terrorized communities until the mid 1950s when vaccines were developed, causing more than 15,000 cases of paralysis in the U.S. each year, which older generations will remember. 

  • Timely: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of intensive care to our medical system—which was only made possible because of the doctors and scientists detailed in this book.

  • Polio is back in the news: in 2022 the U.S. recorded its first polio case in decades in New York, prompting a new push for vaccines and awareness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781771649452
ISBN-10: 1771649453
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: B&W Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 236 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Greystone Books,Canada

Notă biografică

Hannah Wunsch is a critical care physician and researcher at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre. She is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Toronto and holds a Canada Research Chair. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Autumn Ghost is her first book.