Polio - An American Story

Zusatztext "Excellent.... Oshinsky does a good job of recounting famous tales from the war on polio.... The book also unearths some of the fascinating forgotten stories."--The Economist Informationen zum Autor David M. Oshinsky is George Littlefield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A leading historian of modern American politics and society, he is the author of A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy and "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, both of which won major prizes and were New York Times Notable Books. Klappentext From the Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Price in History. All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. Zusammenfassung Presents a portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. Drawing on the papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, this book paints a portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin.

Product details

• Authors: David Oshinsky, David M Oshinsky, Oshinsky David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2006
• EAN: 9780195307146
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530714-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, History of Medicine, History of Science, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Public health & preventive medicine, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, History of the Americas, Public health and preventive medicine