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Ideas on Trial
Ideas on Trial is a series of dramatic
biographies of men and women in science and medicine who waged
heroic struggles and risked their comfort, freedom, reputations,
and sometimes their lives, for the sake of pursuing their
work. The stories come alive in docudrama, “you are there”
style, incorporating, wherever possible, actual reported scenes
and dialogue, along with quotations from letters, diaries,
newspapers, and journals of the time.
Published by McGraw-Hill, in partnership
with Bank Street’s Publications and Media Group, the books
now available in the series are:
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by Adele Glimn. This first woman doctor of modern times got
her medical degree in 1847, a period when it was scandalous
and unthinkable for a woman to be a doctor. Later, she started
her own hospital and medical college for women.
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by Adele Glimn. When this best-selling nature writer published
her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, in 1962, it caused
an enormous controversy. Carson’s book detailed for the very
first time the then-unknown toll pesticides were taking on
the environment. In the short term, the book inspired immediate
protective legislation. In the long term, it sparked the birth
of the worldwide environmental movements.
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by Lorraine Jean Hopping. Ocean explorer and co-inventor of
the aqualung, Cousteau realized that pollution, toxic dumping,
and overfishing were endangering our seas. He began a crusade
to save the seas through his many best-selling books, TV series,
and documentary films.
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by Linda Trice. Drew pioneered the use of blood plasma for
transfusions and organized the blood banks that helped save
soldiers’ lives during World War II. An African-American, he
also opened the door for people of color to advance in medicine.
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by E. A. M. Jakab. Pasteur championed the Germ Theory of Disease
at a time when many people (even scientists) couldn’t believe
that tiny microbes they could see only under a microscope
could actually kill the so-much bigger humans. He hunted down
killer germs to create the first human vaccine, one against
deadly rabies.
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by Lorraine Jean Hopping. This space pioneer and scientist
became the first woman in the United States and the first
woman scientist in the world to rocket into space. She was
followed by other women astronauts.
Books are available online from the Bank Street Bookstore!
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