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213 pages : illustrations, portraits AR: 8.2; F&P: Y; Lexile: 1100L Contents: 1.Baked British Gentlemen -- 2.Swallowing Bags, Bones, and Tubes -- 3.The Sad Story of Laughing Gas -- 4.Daniel Carrion's Deadly Disease -- 5.The Swat Heard 'Round the World -- 6.Night of the Deadly Blue Glow -- 7.From Ocean Bottoms to Mountaintops -- 8.Getting Inside the Heart -- 9.The Fastest Man on Earth -- 10.Locked in Lost Cave Summary: Who are these 'guinea pig scientists'? Searching for clues to some of science's and medicine's bigger (and sometimes stranger) questions, they are all the men and women who devoted their lives to help find the answers. Spanning from the 1770s to the present - and uncovering the science behind digestion, the spread of yellow fever, the development of the first heart catheter, and more - their ten stories are at once scientifically detailed and fascinatingly personal