Dendy, Leslie, 1946-

Guinea pig scientists : bold self-experimenters in science and medicine / Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring ; with illustrations by C.B. Mordan - 1st ed - New York : Henry Holt & Co. , 2005. - 213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.

Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770s to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

0805073167 (hc : alk. paper)

2004052364


Scientists----Juvenile literature
Self-experimentation in medicine

YA 616.027 DEN