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Edition: 1st
Release: 1990-04
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0688094945
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
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In 1905, few Americans had ever heard of polio, the mysterious new disease that seemed to arrive so suddenly at the beginning of the century, but for the next 50 years it stalked the nightmares of every parent. Then, in the spring of 1954, several million people eagerly volunteered their children as test subjects for a new vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.
PATENTING THE SUN makes real to us the people & events behind the development of Salk's vaccine. Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's private battle against paralysis, PATENTING THE SUN describes how a small lab experiment became a huge national event. The testing of the vaccine was the largest field trial ever held, the greatest peacetime mobilization of civilians in American history, & the most eagerly observed & heavily promoted scientific program until the space launches a decade later. The announcement in 1955 that the vaccine worked became a landmark in 20th century history, one of the few public events that burned itself in Download Patenting the Sun for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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