Breakthrough
Subtitle: Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780312648701
Description: Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others, "Breakthrough" relives the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981; title: Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919; title: The breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919; title: The library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919; title: New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon; title: Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918; title: War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918; title: Glens Falls, New York, April 1920; title: Idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920; title: Banting's house in London, Ontario, October 30-31, 1920; title: Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921; title: Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920; title: The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921; title: The University of Toronto, Summer 1921; title: Washington, D.C., and Bolton, New York, March to September 1921; title: The Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922; title: The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921; title: University of Toronto, September to December 1921; title: Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921; title: The American Physiological Society Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921; title: Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922; title: Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922; title: Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922; title: Patents, partnership, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922; title: Fame and famine, Summer 1922; title: Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922; title: Escape from Morristown, August 1922; title: The transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922; title: Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922; title: Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922; title: The Nobel Prize and beyond; title: The emergence of Elizabeth Gossett; title: Postscript : Diabetes and insulin today