Fever : how Tu Youyou adapted traditional Chinese medicine to find a cure for malaria / by Darcy Pattison ; illustrated by Peter Willis.
Material type: TextSeries: Moments in sciencePublisher: Little Rock, AR : Mims House, [2021]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781629441955
- 1629441953
- Tu, Youyou, 1930- -- Juvenile literature
- Pharmacologists -- China -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Medical scientists -- China -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women in science -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Malaria -- Treatment -- Juvenile literature
- Medicine, Chinese -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 615.1092 P321 | Available | 33111010644702 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 615.1092 P321 | Available | 33111010773097 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People's Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against malaria. Would any of them work? Courage, resilience, and perseverance--follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria.
"People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People's Republic of China created a task force to find a cure. Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against malaria. Would any of them work? Courage, resilience, and perseverance--follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria."-- Amazon.com.