Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle / Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Arthur Ainsberg. Signed in manuscript by the author.

Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- Breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- 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 -- Glen 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 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Boston, New York, March to September 1921 -- Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- 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 -- Parents, partners, 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 -- 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 -- Nobel Prize and beyond -- Emergence of Elizabeth Gossett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.