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Polio : an American story

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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  • ISBN: 9781280501982
  • ISBN: 1280501987
  • ISBN: 9781602568259
  • ISBN: 1602568251
  • ISBN: 0195152948
  • ISBN: 9780195152944
  • ISBN: 9781423746539
  • ISBN: 1423746538
  • ISBN: 0199726590
  • ISBN: 9780199726592
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (342, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
  • Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: USA
Poliovirus Vaccines History United States
Poliomyelitis United States History
Geschichte 1900-2000
Kinderlähmung
Poliomyélite États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle
Poliomyélite États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle
Medicine
Health
Poliovirus Vaccines
Poliomyelitis
History
Poliomyelitis United States History 20th century
Genre: History.
Electronic books.

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