physicians

Readers will discover the methods of medical care, from the ancients to modern technology. Readers are also treated to a tour of techniques from ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and Indian medical texts, Hippocrates and the Greeks, Arab centers of medicine, the legacy of Galen, and Renaissance anatomical studies.

Profiles the Nazi war criminal who was personally responsible for deciding which inmates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz would work, which would be subjected to experimentation, and which would die.

Eight years after the disappearance of his wife--presumed dead--Dr. David Beck receives an email message containing hints that Elizabeth is alive, prompting him to leave everyone he knows and trusts to chase after that possibility. Little does he know he is being hunted.

When the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like.

A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.

Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr. Charles Drew, father of the blood bank, and young pioneering surgeon Ben Carson.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois, " and people of laughter.

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.