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About this title: All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping 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. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for ...
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Polio: an American Story
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Description: 16pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, viii, 342, (16)p. 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. read more
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Polio: an American Story
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Polio-an American Story-the Crusade That Mobilized the Nation Against the 20th Century's Most Feared Disease
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Polio, an American Story: the Crusade That Mobilized the Nation Against the 20th Century's Most Feared Disease
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