Polio
Subtitle: an American story
By: David M. Oshinsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780195152944; 9780195307146
Subjects: Poliomyélite; Histoire; États-Unis; Geschichte 1900-2000; Poliovirus Vaccines; Poliomyelitis; History; Kinderlähmung
Description: [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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first epidemics; title: Warm Springs; title: "Cripples' money"; title: "And they shall walk"; title: Poster children, marching mothers; title: The apprenticeship of Jonas Salk; title: Pathway to a vaccine; title: The starting line; title: Seeing beyond the microscope; title: "Plague season"; title: The rivals; title: "The biggest public health experiment ever"; title: The Cutter fiasco; title: Mission to Moscow; title: Sabin Sundays; title: Celebrities and survivors.