Janet R. Gilsdorf, MD, is the Robert P. Kelch Research Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, where she cares for children with complex infectious diseases and formerly directed the Haemophilus influenzae research laboratory. Her scientific endeavors involve elucidating the epidemiology of bacterial infections, exploring how bacteria cause infections, and developing vaccines to prevent ear infections in children.
[This book] deserves a place on the bookshelf of every medical historian interested in infectious disease and medical research. -- Edward Wawrzynczak, BSHM Gilsdorf's wonderful book convinces us we need laboratory scientists and we should be immeasurably thankful for what they did. -- Eelco Wijdicks, Lancet Neurology In Continual Raving, Dr. Janet Gilsdorf, a true expert, brings alive for all readers a profoundly important history that is a paradigm for disease, failure, progress, and redemption. Recounting the origins and the activities of the protagonists make this is a real story of science, warts and all -- Martin Blaser, Author of Missing Microbes