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Jonas Salk : a life /

"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Charlotte (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Salk, Jonas, > 1914-1995.
Virologists > United States > Biography.
Poliomyelitis > United States > History.
Poliomyelitis > Vaccination > United States > History.
Poliomyelitis vaccine > History.
Influenza vaccines > History.
AIDS vaccines.
Physicians.
Virology.
AIDS Vaccines > history.
History, 20th Century.
Influenza Vaccines > history.
Poliomyelitis > history.
Poliovirus Vaccines > history.
United States.
Biography.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Two plagues
  • Born to serve
  • Finding his place
  • A wedding and a war
  • Joining the fight against influenza
  • Vaccine neophyte
  • Pittsburgh's virgin territory
  • Polio
  • The chosen
  • Ready to run
  • Research sub rosa
  • Out of his hands
  • The world's largest clinical trial
  • Relief from fear
  • The Cutter affair
  • Fame and its consequences
  • Act II
  • Two cultures under one roof
  • The price of a masterpiece
  • Seeking Shangri-La
  • A troubled marriage
  • Harnessing the immune system
  • A most unusual arrangement
  • Salk unfolding
  • Fall from grace
  • Final fling
  • Marginalized
  • The swine flu snafu
  • Return to the polio vaccine controversy
  • A Trojan horse
  • Disciples, sycophants, and lovers
  • AIDS: Salk's next mountain
  • Unbowed.