Jonas Salk - A Life

Zusatztext Featured in- Health Affairs Informationen zum Autor Charlotte D. Jacobs, M.D. is the Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita) at Stanford University. She has served as Senior Associate Dean and as Director of the Clinical Cancer Center, and is the author of Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease. Klappentext The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine¿for which he never fully got credit¿to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS. Zusammenfassung The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS. Inhaltsverzeichnis PROLOGUE - TWO PLAGUES CHAPTER 1 - BORN WITH A CAUL CHAPTER 2 - BIG SHOT CHAPTER 3 - TENACITY CHAPTER 4- FIGHTING A GHOST CHAPTER 5 - VACCINE NEOPHYTE CHAPTER 6 - VIRGIN TERRITORY CHAPTER 7 -THE DISEASE KNOWN AS POLIO CHAPTER 8 - THE CHOSEN CHAPTER 9 - RENEGADE RESEARCHER CHAPTER 10 - TORN FROM HIS ARMS CHAPTER 11- THE WORLD'S LARGEST CLINICAL TRIAL CHAPTER 12 - IT WORKS! CHAPTER 13 - THE CUTTER INCIDENT CHAPTER 14 - BIRTH OF AN ICON CHAPTER 15 - ACT II CHAPTER 16 - TWO CULTURES CHAPTER 17 - AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE CHAPTER 18 - A SCIENTIFIC SHANGRI-LA CHAPTER 19 - DIVORCED CHAPTER 20 - HARNESSING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CHAPTER 21 - LIONS MATE WITH LIONS CHAPTER 22 - SALK UNFOLDING CHAPTER 23 - FALL FROM GRACE CHAPTER 24 - UNBRIDLED FREEDOM CHAPTER 25 - NEMESIS CHAPTER 26 - THE SWINE FLU SNAFU CHAPTER 27 - FINAL FLING CHAPTER 28 - POLIO REDUX CHAPTER 29 - AIDE-MÉMOIRE CHAPTER 30 - DISCIPLES, SYCOPHANTS, AND LOVERS CHAPTER 31 - THE CLARION CALL TO AIDS CHAPTER 32 - UNRESOLVED CHAGRIN ...

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The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

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• Authors: Charlotte Decroes Jacobs, Charlotte Decroes (Ben and A. Jess Shenson Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes (Ben and A. Jess Shenson of Medicine (Emerita) Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes (Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita) Jacobs, Jacobs Charlotte DeCroes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780190679163
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067916-3
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, History of Science, History of the Americas, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)