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Here 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. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin. He also tells the story of Isabel Morgan, perhaps the most talented of all polio researchers, who might have beaten Salk to the prize if she had not retired to raise a family.

Oshinsky offers an insightful look at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in the 1930s by FDR and Basil O'Connor, it revolutionized fundraising and the perception of disease in America. Oshinsky also shows how the polio experience revolutionized the way in which the government licensed and tested new drugs before allowing them on the market, and the way in which the legal system dealt with manufacturers' liability for unsafe products. Finally, and perhaps most tellingly, Oshinsky reveals that polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed by the media, but in truth a relatively uncommon disease. But in baby-booming America--increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and hygiene-obsessed--the specter of polio, like the specter of the atomic bomb, soon became a cloud of terror over daily life.

Both a gripping scientific suspense story and a provocative social and cultural history, Polio opens a fresh window onto postwar America.
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Here 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. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin. He also tells the story of Isabel Morgan, perhaps the most talented of all polio researchers, who might have beaten Salk to the prize if she had not retired to raise a family.

Oshinsky offers an insightful look at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in the 1930s by FDR and Basil O'Connor, it revolutionized fundraising and the perception of disease in America. Oshinsky also shows how the polio experience revolutionized the way in which the government licensed and tested new drugs before allowing them on the market, and the way in which the legal system dealt with manufacturers' liability for unsafe products. Finally, and perhaps most tellingly, Oshinsky reveals that polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed by the media, but in truth a relatively uncommon disease. But in baby-booming America--increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and hygiene-obsessed--the specter of polio, like the specter of the atomic bomb, soon became a cloud of terror over daily life.

Both a gripping scientific suspense story and a provocative social and cultural history, Polio opens a fresh window onto postwar America.

ebook,David M. Oshinsky,Polio An American Story,Oxford University Press,Diseases,Popular Culture - General,20th century,American history postwar, from c 1945 -,Clinical Medicine Professional,Diseases,History,History / United States / 20th Century,History of medicine,History of science,History of the Americas,History American,Infectious Diseases,Medical / Diseases,Medical / History,Medical / Nursing,Neurology clinical neurophysiology,Poliomyelitis,Poliomyelitis - United States - History.,Poliomyelitis vaccine - History.,Popular Culture - General,Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000,Public health preventive medicine,Social Science / Popular Culture,USA,United States,United States - 20th Century,History,History / United States / 20th Century,Infectious Diseases,Medical / Diseases,Medical / History,Social Science / Popular Culture,United States - 20th Century,Medical / Nursing,20th century,Poliomyelitis,Poliomyelitis vaccine,United States,History American,Clinical Medicine Professional,American history postwar, from c 1945 -,History of medicine,History of science,History of the Americas,Neurology clinical neurophysiology,Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000,Public health preventive medicine

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Product details File Size 3716 KB Print Length 369 pages Publisher Oxford University Press; 1 edition (April 12, 2005) Publication Date April 12, 2005 Sold by  Services LLC Language English ASIN B004WN4W9G

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