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035			_a(OCoLC)56834404 _z(OCoLC)56437612 _z(OCoLC)60791320 _z(OCoLC)61301223 _z(OCoLC)70671502 _z(OCoLC)71349924 _z(OCoLC)73819702 _z(OCoLC)77527255 _z(OCoLC)731297038 _z(OCoLC)962878449 _z(OCoLC)966572145 _z(OCoLC)977777497 _z(OCoLC)979199403 _z(OCoLC)987985754 _z(OCoLC)993150613 _z(OCoLC)1004803418 _z(OCoLC)1022708611 _z(OCoLC)1065038625
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100	1		_aOshinsky, David M., _d1944-
245	1	0	_aPolio : _ban American story / _cDavid M. Oshinsky.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2005.
300			_a342, [16] pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe first epidemics -- Warm Springs -- "Cripples' money" -- "And they shall walk" -- Poster children, marching mothers -- The apprenticeship of Jonas Salk -- Pathway to a vaccine -- The starting line -- Seeing beyond the microscope -- "Plague season" -- The rivals -- "The biggest public health experiment ever" -- The Cutter fiasco -- Mission to Moscow -- Sabin Sundays -- Celebrities and survivors.
520			_aThis is the gripping story of the 1950s polio epidemic that terrified America and how it was conquered in a bitter competition between two brilliant scientists. 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. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin. Indeed, the competition was marked by a deep-seated ill will among the researchers that remained with them until their deaths. The author also tells the story of Isabel Morgan, perhaps the most talented of all polio researchers, who might have beaten Salk to the prize if she had not retired to raise a family. As backdrop to this feverish research, Oshinsky offers an insightful look at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in the 1930s by FDR and Basil O'Connor. The National Foundation revolutionized fundraising and the perception of disease in America, using "poster children" and the famous March of Dimes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from a vast army of contributors (instead of a few well-heeled benefactors), creating the largest research and rehabilitation network in the history of medicine. The polio experience also revolutionized the way in which the government licensed and tested new drugs before allowing them on the market, and the way in which the legal system dealt with manufacturers' liability for unsafe products. Finally, and perhaps most tellingly, Oshinsky reveals that polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed by the media, but in truth a relatively uncommon disease. But in baby-booming America--increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and hygiene-obsessed--the specter of polio soon became a cloud of terror over daily life.
586			_aPulitzer Prize, History, 2006.
506			_aOnline version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
650		0	_aPoliomyelitis _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		1	_aPoliomyelitis _xHistory _y20th century. _zUnited States
650		2	_aPoliomyelitis _xhistory.
650	2	2	_aHistory, 20th Century.
651		2	_aUnited States.
650		6	_a _z _xHistoire _y
650		7	_aPoliomyelitis. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01068830
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650		7	_a _2gnd
650	1	7	_aPoliomyelitis. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aVaccinatie. _2gtt
650		7	_a _a _xHistoire _y _2ram
650		7	_aPoliomyelitis _xHistory _y20th century. _zUnited States. _2sears
650	0	7	_aGeschichte 1900-2000. _2swd
651		7	_aUSA. _2swd
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aOshinsky, David M., 1944- _tPolio. _dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 _w(OCoLC)607666698
856	4	1	_32005. _uhttp://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=1047418&T=F
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025249.html
856	4	1	_uhttp://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=432530&T=F
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2004025249-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2004025249-d.html
856	4	1	_3MyiLibrary _uhttp://www.myilibrary.com?id=50198
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