Polio an American story
[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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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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.
