The Fight to Survive: A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin by Caroline Cox

The Fight to Survive: A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin

Caroline Cox

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
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In 1919, when 11-year-old Elizabeth Evan Hughes was first diagnosed with what we now know is Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, the medical community considered it a death sentence. In "The Fight to Survive," Caroline Cox weaves the heart-wrenching stor...

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