Author:
Cooper, Thea.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Descriptionviii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Prologue -- Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- The breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- The library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon -- Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918 -- War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918 -- Glens Falls, New York, April 1920 -- Idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920 -- Banting's house in London, Ontario, October 30-31, 1920 -- Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921 -- Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- The University of Toronto, Summer 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Bolton, New York, March to September 1921 -- The Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- The Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- The American Physiological Society Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921 -- Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922 -- Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922 -- Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922 -- Patents, partnership, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922 -- Fame and famine, Summer 1922 -- Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922 -- Escape from Morristown, August 1922 -- The transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922 -- Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922 -- Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922 -- The Nobel Prize and beyond -- The emergence of Elizabeth Gossett -- Postscript : Diabetes and insulin today.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: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.
