Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio
Biography, Health and medicine, Medicine, Science and technology, Science and medicine biography
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
This history of the 1950s battle to develop a polio vaccine focuses on Jonas Salk's successful dead-virus inoculation. Discusses social effects of infantile paralysis from 1916 to mid century, the controversy over live-virus vaccines, Walter Winchell's public denouncement of Dr. Salk, and Salk's 1954 vindication. 2004
Title Details
ISBN
9780399152160
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Copyright Date
2004
Book number
5690644
Braille details for CELA title
Volumes
11
Braille code
EBAE
Braille producer
CPH