Medicine — stories and articles

Everything on WonderBooks tagged Medicine: 1 article and 103 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Articles

• Why Was Andreas Vesalius So Important to Anatomy?

Illustrated stories

• Abdul Qadeer Khan
• Alexander Fleming
• Ambulance
  Invention and innovation • 18th century
• Andreas Vesalius
• Anesthesia
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Anthony Fauci
• Antiseptic Surgery
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• Artificial Heart
  Invention and innovation
• Barbara McClintock
  Great Women in Science • 20th century
• Biopsy Needle
  Invention and innovation • 1930s
• Blood Pressure Cuff
  Invention and innovation • 1896
• Blood Transfusion System
  Invention and innovation
• Blood Typing
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Carol Greider
• CAT Scan Contrast Agent
  Invention and innovation
• Charles Darwin
• Charles Darwin's Voyage
  San Francisco and Charles Darwin
• Contact Lens
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Contraceptive Pill
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• CRISPR Gene Editing
  Invention and innovation • 2010s
• CT Scanner
  Invention and innovation • 1980s
• David Baltimore
• Defibrillator
  Invention and innovation • 1940s
• Dialysis Machine
  Invention and innovation • 1940s
• DNA Sequencing
  Invention and innovation
• Electrocardiogram
  Invention and innovation • 18th century
• Elizabeth Blackburn
• Emmanuelle Charpentier
  Great Women in Science
• Epidural
  Invention and innovation • 1921
• Eyeglasses
  Invention and innovation • 13th century
• Florence Nightingale
  Great Women in Science
• Françoise Barre-Sinoussi
• Francis Crick
• Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
  Great Women in Science
• Frederick Sanger
• George Washington Carver
• Gertrude Elion
• Gerty Cori
  Great Women in Science • 1940s
• Glucose Meter
  Invention and innovation • 1950s
• Gregor Mendel
• Gregor Mendel and the Pea Plants
  Gregor Mendel and Pea Plants
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Harald zur Hausen
• Hearing Aid
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Heart-Lung Machine
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Hospital Bed
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• How Prosthetic Limbs Were Designed
  Prosthetic Limbs
• How the MRI Scanner Was Invented
  The MRI Scanner
• Hypodermic Needle
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Incubator
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Inhaler
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Jane Goodall
  Great Women in Science • 1960
• Jennifer Doudna
  Great Women in Science
• Katalin Kariko
  Great Women in Science
• Laparoscopy
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Louis Pasteur
• Lynn Margulis
  Great Women in Science • 1967
• Mario Capecchi
• Mary-Claire King
• May-Britt Moser
  Great Women in Science
• Microscope
  Invention and innovation • 16th century
• MRI Scanner
  Invention and innovation
• mRNA Vaccine Platform
  Invention and innovation • 1990s
• Nettie Stevens
  Discovery of the X and Y chromosomes directly refutes those earlier theories • early 1900s
• Organ Preservation System
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Pacemaker
  Invention and innovation • 1957
• Paul Ehrlich
• Penicillin Production
  Invention and innovation • 1928
• Peter Medawar
• Pregnancy Test
  Invention and innovation • 20th century
• Prosthetic Limb
  Invention and innovation • 16th century
• Pulse Oximeter
  Invention and innovation • 1970s
• Rachel Carson
  Great Women in Science
• Rapid Diagnostic Test
  Invention and innovation • 1950s
• Rene Laennec
• Rita Colwell
• Rita Levi-Montalcini
  Great Women in Science • 20th century
• Robert Koch
• Roderick MacKinnon
• Rosalind Franklin
  Great Women in Science • 1950s
• Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• Severo Ochoa
• Sterile Glove
  Invention and innovation • 19th century
• Surgical Robot
  Invention and innovation • 1980s
• Svante Paabo
• Syringe
  Invention and innovation • 18th century
• The Invention of Anesthesia
  Invention of Anesthesia • 19th century
• The Invention of Eyeglasses
  Invention of Eyeglasses • 13th Century Italy • 13th century
• The Invention of the Defibrillator
  Invention of the Defibrillator
• The Invention of the Microscope
  Invention of the Microscope
• The Invention of the Stethoscope
  Invention of the Stethoscope • 19th century
• The Invention of the Thermometer
  Invention of the Thermometer • Italy • 17th century
• Theodor Boveri
• Thermometer
  Invention and innovation • 17th century
• Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Tu Youyou
• Ultrasound
  Discovered too late, or with significant risk • 1914
• Ventilator
  Invention and innovation • 1920s
• Wheelchair
  Invention and innovation
• William Harvey
• X-ray Imaging
  Invention and innovation • 19th century