A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine

by Patricia Meisol

A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force against preventable suffering.

In A Heart Afire, Patricia Meisol renders a moving portrait of the indomitable pediatrician and global patient activist Helen Taussig (1898-1986), who famously gathered and publicized evidence linking thalidomide to birth defects, leading to US drug safety...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262048523
• ISBN13: 9780262048521
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"