Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine Pdf

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Edition: 1st
Release: 1990-04
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0688094945
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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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Download Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR (Health & Medicine in American Society) Pdf

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Release: 1992-05-01
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0813517869
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Dirt and Disease pdf
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"Will have an enthusiastic audience among historians of medicine who are familiar, for the most part, only with later twentieth-century efforts to combat polio." --Allan M. Brandt, University of North Carolina Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within a set of larger questions about health and disease in twentieth-century American culture. In the early decades of this century, scientists sought to understand the nature of polio. They found that it was caused by a virus, and that it could often be diagnosed by analyzing spinal fluid. Although scientific information about polio was understood and accepted, it was not always definitive. This Download Dirt and Disease for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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