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Polio : an American story
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[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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- Creator
- David M. Oshinsky
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- viii, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199726590, 0199840083, 9781280501982, 9781423746539, 1280501987, 1602568251, 1423746538, 0195152948, 0195307143, 9781602568259, 9780195307146, 9780199840083, 9780195152944, 9780199726592
- OCLC
- ocm56834404, on1096454592, ocm62866046
- 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
Subjects
- Poliomyelitis -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Poliomyelitis -- history -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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- Poliovirus Vaccines -- history -- United States.
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