ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press, United States] Softcover This work is a comprehensive account of the poliomyelitis epidemic. It takes the story from the first major outbreak of Infantile Paralysis in New York in 1916 - which induced panic on a scale reminiscent of the great plagues of history - through to its lingering aftermath in the shape of the so-called, and still mysterious Post-Polio Syndrome. This account combines several strands - biographical, political and social - as well as clinical and microbiological. It focuses on those individuals who were influential in the treatment and conquest of polio - from the most celebrated polio sufferer of all, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who set up his own hydrotherapy centre at Warm Springs in Georgia - to the scientific rivals, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, caught up in the race to produce a viable vaccine. The story also features John Enders, the Nobel prizewinner who made the crucial breakthrough in the laboratory; FDR's lieutenant, Basil O'Connor, whose March of Dimes became a byword for successful fund-raising; and Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the nurse from the Australian outback who challenged medical orthodoxy and invented miracle cures. In Britain, despite ten years of increasingly severe outbreaks, it took the death from bulbar polio in 1959 of an international footballer, Jeff Hall, to etch the importance of polio prevention on people's minds. The ...

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Yale University Press 1995 Hardcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:9780300062922
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:9780300062922
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

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Yale University Press, Date: 1995. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1995. Yale University Press ISBN 0300062923 9780300062922 [US]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780300062922
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

Yale University Press 1995 Hardcover HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.

Yale University Press, Date: 1995. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780300062922 1995. Yale University Press ISBN 0300062923 9780300062922 [GB]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780300062922
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780300062922
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

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[AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Yale 1995 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 0300062923. Exlibrary with usual library markings.; 366 pages.

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[Deep River, IA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]
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Yale 1995 Hardcover Good+ in Very Good dust jacket 0300062923. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed.; 366 pages.

Yale. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Date: 1995. Hardcover. 0300062923 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. ; 366 pages . 1995. Yale ISBN 0300062923 9780300062922 [US]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale Univ. Press (1995) New Haven, CT] Hardcover Good plus or better, light general wear. Hardcover Lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed jacket. Prev owner's inscription on front fly.
[Springfield, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

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[Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press, London] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Fine hardback with a near fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages
[Horsham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Book is in good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket.
[Doncaster, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

Yale University Press, Date: 1995-07-26. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 1995. Yale University Press ISBN 0300062923 9780300062922 [US]

ISBN10: 0300062923, ISBN13: 9780300062922, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
[Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Yale University Press 1995 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 950grams, ISBN: 9780300062922.