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Jonas Salk : a life /
"The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Two plagues
- Born to serve
- Finding his place
- A wedding and a war
- Joining the fight against influenza
- Vaccine neophyte
- Pittsburgh's virgin territory
- Polio
- The chosen
- Ready to run
- Research sub rosa
- Out of his hands
- The world's largest clinical trial
- Relief from fear
- The Cutter affair
- Fame and its consequences
- Act II
- Two cultures under one roof
- The price of a masterpiece
- Seeking Shangri-La
- A troubled marriage
- Harnessing the immune system
- A most unusual arrangement
- Salk unfolding
- Fall from grace
- Final fling
- Marginalized
- The swine flu snafu
- Return to the polio vaccine controversy
- A Trojan horse
- Disciples, sycophants, and lovers
- AIDS: Salk's next mountain
- Unbowed.