Medical Breakthroughs and the People Who Developed Them. This set, one of Gale's UXL series designed for middle-school students, provides the stories of 215 events or personalities in medical history. Unfamiliar medical terms are often defined right within the entry. In each volume, there is also a six-page glossary and a master index giving volume and page in the set.
Arrangement is alphabetical.
Medical figures from Vesalius to Sabin are included, but the basis for selection of the 215 articles is not given. This reasonably priced work could be useful for middle-school health, technology, and science classes, as well as in high schools and community colleges, to assist students with weak reading skills. Public libraries may want to purchase where demand for information on medical discoveries exists.