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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Poliomyelitis > United States > History > 20th century.
Poliomyelitis > history
Poliovirus Vaccines > history
Poliomyélite > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Poliomyelitis
Kinderlähmung
Geschichte 1900-2000.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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