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Inventing Ott: The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton by Jerusha Bosarge
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About the Author:
Jerusha Bosarge is a native Mississippian and freelance author/journalist. She currently resides in Jacksonville, FL with her husband, Joey, and her two beautiful little girls, Jordan and Abigail. Her husband was one of Dr. Guyton’s last students and suggested that Jerusha think about writing his story. After hearing so many answers to “What was Dr. Guyton best known for?” Jerusha decided that his story must be told. Before moving to Florida, Jerusha enjoyed writing feature articles for The Mississippi Press, The Northside Sun, and the Jackson Free Press. She earned a B.S. in Biology from Millsaps College (Jackson, MS) before deciding to pursue her passion for writing. In her free time, she enjoys selling her writing services online as customized gift products and scrapbook memorabilia via an eBay store called Personalized Poetry and Prose. . |
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Inventing Ott: The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton By Jerusha Bosarge Written to Inspire Young Readers
Inventing Ott: The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton is the story of a Mississippi boy who turned his curiosity, imagination, and love of learning into a lifetime of accomplishments. From the confines of crutches or a wheelchair, the now legendary Dr. Arthur C. Guyton was the inventor of the electric wheelchair, father of ten Harvard-educated doctors, chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, and sole writer of the best-selling medical textbook of all time. Throughout his life, Ott designed and built boats, machinery, electronic devices, tennis courts, swimming pools, homes, and more. He attributed his accomplishments to the lessons learned as a child. SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 He learned that science was fun at a very young age, and he simply kept “playing” as he matured. As a survivor of polio, Ott was a person who was only limited by the bounds of his imagination, and not by physical restrictions. He made the joy of science into a successful career ending in the betterment of mankind. Along with its inspirational message, Inventing Ott offers a glimpse of American history (1919- 2003) with historical photographs and anecdotes from his dear friendship with William Faulkner. Readers will also be introduced to simplified versions and illustrations of some rather complex scientific principles that intrigued Ott in his youth. While providing a narrative, and often humorous, life to death account of an indispensable American figure, Inventing Ott challenges any middle grade or young adult reader with the possibility that he or she can achieve greatness by combining the knowledge that they already possess with imagination. It introduces the idea that creativity can be applied to more than simply artistic creations, but also to invent and to research and to discover! Inventing Ott is a biography that can inspire young Americans, especially Mississippians, to achieve their full potential by giving them a role model that they can relate to on a personal level. |
More about Arthur C. Guyton: Ott has been honored with a Presidential Citation for his medical inventions, an Army Commendation Citation for his military research in chemical and bacterial warfare, the Research Achievement Award (the most distinguished and prestigious award given by the American Heart Association) for his groundbreaking discoveries about the human circulatory system and blood pressure regulation, and the 1988 William Harvey Award for hypertension research. He was listed as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America, and he is the author of well over 500 publications in the fields of science and medicine. Even more intriguing than his actual accomplishments, is Ott’s insistence that most of his ideas and techniques originated with the simple skills and knowledge that he learned (often while playing) as a young boy growing up in the in the heart of Mississippi. |
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Florida Media Quarterly book review: Winter 2005/2006
Inventing Ott: The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton by Jerusha Bosarge Quail Ridge Press. 2005. ISBN 1-893062-78-3
From the very first page, the adventurous spirit of Arthur C. Guyton (nicknamed “Ott” by his two-year-old brother) is effortlessly revealed to the reader in this engaging photobiography. Inventing Ott: The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton is the story of how a strong-willed young boy grew up to become a famous author, scientist, medical doctor, soldier, inventor, survivor of paralytic polio, and father of ten Harvard-educated doctors using many of the skills and passions that he developed as a young boy in Mississippi. Bosarge’s conversational style of writing is surprisingly jam-packed with scientific information, mirroring Guyton’s own ability to take something complicated, and make it simple. Without talking down to young readers, Bosarge turned the life to death account of this previously unsung hero into an inspirational roller coaster through the challenges of childhood, the reality of war, the uncertainty of young love, the tragedy of paralysis, and the triumph of turning adversity into discovery. The author’s ability to combine biography, history, basic science, anatomy, physics, electronics, and even calculus into a single unified story-line is impressive. This book could be used as a cross-curriculum supplement, but is especially suited for science subjects, as Dr. Guyton was most well known for his groundbreaking discoveries in physiology and the human circulatory system. Recommended for upper elementary, middle, and high schools. |
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