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Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels

Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels

Fitzharris, Lindsey
Teal, Adrian
Teal, Adrian

Hardcover

Science & NatureSelf Help

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1547615028
ISBN13: 9781547615025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

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

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.

Beheadings! 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.

Enjoy 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.

This fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!

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