ISBN: 0195152948

Description: 342 pages of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The 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.

LCCN: 2004025249

Control Number: 123858

Subjects:

• Poliomyelitis -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
• Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History.
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-