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Bloomsbury presents Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal, read by Hunter Johns

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.


Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine's most astonishing “dead ends.” Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better.

Enjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body-from brain, to heart, to limbs-during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris will guide you through centuries of medical mistakes, festooned with riveting facts and pitch-perfect humor. Celebrate the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them.

This fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!

Product details

Published 14 Oct 2025
Format Audiobook
Duration 2 hours and 40 minutes
ISBN 9781547615049
Imprint Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Lindsey Fitzharris

Lindsey Fitzharris is the bestselling author of Th…

Author

Adrian Teal

Adrian Teal is a caricaturist, cartoonist, fine ar…

Illustrator

Adrian Teal

Adrian Teal is a caricaturist, cartoonist, fine ar…

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