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Polio : an American story / David M. Oshinsky

By:

Oshinsky, David M, , 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2005.Description: 342, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0195152948 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Poliomyelitis -- --United States -- History -- 20th century

DDC classification:

614.5 OSH

LOC classification:

RC181.U5 O83 2005

Summary: All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	614.5 OSH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		061734

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping 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.

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