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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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	614.5 OSH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		061734

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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