Polio : an American story / David M. Oshinsky.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 342, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195152948 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195152944 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195307146 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0195307143 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Polio.LOC classification:
  • RC 181 .U5 O83 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
The first epidemics -- Warm Springs -- "Cripples' money" -- "And they shall walk" -- Poster children, marching mothers -- The apprenticeship of Jonas Salk -- Pathway to a vaccine -- The starting line -- Seeing beyond the microscope -- "Plague season" -- The rivals -- "The biggest public health experiment ever" -- The Cutter fiasco -- Mission to Moscow -- Sabin Sundays -- Celebrities and survivors.
Summary: [This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.-Dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The first epidemics -- Warm Springs -- "Cripples' money" -- "And they shall walk" -- Poster children, marching mothers -- The apprenticeship of Jonas Salk -- Pathway to a vaccine -- The starting line -- Seeing beyond the microscope -- "Plague season" -- The rivals -- "The biggest public health experiment ever" -- The Cutter fiasco -- Mission to Moscow -- Sabin Sundays -- Celebrities and survivors.

[This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.-Dust jacket.

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