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Polio : an American story / David M. Oshinsky.
[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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0195152948 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780195307146
- ISBN: 9780195152944 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 342, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: [First edition].
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.[328]-332) 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. |
| Awards Note: | Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Columbia Gorge Community College Library | HEALTH & MEDICAL OSHIN 2005 (Text) | 33892002380856 | Main Collection | Available | - |
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