{"product_id":"dead-ends-flukes-flops-failures-that-sparked-medical-marvels-9781547615025","title":"Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops \u0026 Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! \u003c\/i\u003eJourney 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body-from brain, to heart, to limbs-during which \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781547615025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51581089448117,"sku":"9781547615025","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_98f445aa-773c-4093-916f-5f96d6bf3188.jpg?v=1755619632","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-ends-flukes-flops-failures-that-sparked-medical-marvels-9781547615025","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}