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Polio : an American story /

Main Author: Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis > History > 20th century. > United States
Poliomyelitis > history.
Poliovirus Vaccines > history.
History.
Poliomyelitis.
Poliovirus Vaccines.
Health.
Medicine.
Poliomyélite > Histoire > 20e siècle. > États-Unis
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Poliomyélite
États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Kinderlähmung.
United States.
USA.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146936
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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