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Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of Polio / by Jeffrey Kluger [Buy it!] | Kluger Jeffrey | USD 11.94 (Fri May 24 14:30:10 2024) | Biblio | MW Books Ltd. | New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, Date: 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 373 pages; Physical desc. : 373 p. : ill. , ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-358) and index. Subjects: Salk, Jonas (1914-1995) --Virologists --Poliomyelitis --Vaccination --United States --History. Summary: The story of the polio vaccine and its enterprising creator, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics and a discrediting rival researcher nearly prevented the vaccine's development. 2004. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 0399152164 9780399152160 [IE] |