A Story of Medicine in 50 Discoveries: From Mummies to Gene Splicing

About Gale EatonM. D.Marguerite ViglianiMarguerite Vigliani M. D.

Marguerite Vigliani MD (Barrington RI) is Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology a tthe Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. She has been a private solo OB/GYN practitioner for the last 36 years in Rhode Island where she lives with her family. She has authored a number of medical case reports and clinical opinions for peer-reviewed journals and she has taught medical students residents and fellows in OB/GYN. Gale Eaton has spent a lifetime with books for children and young adults first as a childrens librarian at the Boston Public Library and the Berkshire Athenaeum and later as a professor of childrens literature at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of four other books. Phillip Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of books essays stories songs and articles including the National Book Award - and Newbery Honor - winning book Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. A graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy dedicated to preserving the plants animals and natural communities of the Earth.