{"product_id":"dead-ends-flukes-flops-failures-that-sparked-medical-marvels","title":"Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops \u0026 Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels","description":"A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year | A Chicago Public Library Best Kids' Book of the Year | A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year\n\nFrom New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.\n\nBeheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine's most astonishing “dead ends.” Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better.\n\nEnjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body-from brain, to heart, to limbs-during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris and caricaturist Adrian Teal will guide you through centuries of medical mistakes, festooned with riveting facts, pitch-perfect humor, and vivid illustrations. Celebrate the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them.\n\nThis fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1547615028\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1547615028.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Teal, Adrian|Fitzharris, Lindsey\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43337712304189,"sku":"BVV.1547615028.G","price":8.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1547615028-0.jpg?v=1783891285","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/dead-ends-flukes-flops-failures-that-sparked-medical-marvels","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}