Polio : an American story / David M. Oshinsky
- Author
- Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- viii, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0195152948 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-332) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- York copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056
Dubois copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056
Abington copy: Purchased with funds from the David G. Lashin Memorial Book Fund; 20056 - Endowment Note
- David G. Lashin Memorial Fund
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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