Title Polio : an American story / David M. Oshinsky.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (342, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Poliomyelitis -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Poliomyelitis -- history.
	Poliovirus Vaccines -- history.
	United States.
	History.
	Poliomyelitis.
	Poliovirus Vaccines.
	Health.
	Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	Poliomyelitis. (OCoLC)fst01068830
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Kinderlähmung.
	Geschichte 1900-2000.
	United States.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Oshinsky, David M., 1944- Polio. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195152948 (DLC) 2004025249 (OCoLC)56834404
ISBN	9780199726592 (electronic bk.)
	0199726590 (electronic bk.)
	1423746538 (electronic bk.)
	9781423746539 (electronic bk.)
	1602568251 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader)
	9781602568259 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader)
	1280501987
	9781280501982
	0195307143
	9780195307146

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