The death of a disease : a history of the eradication of poliomyelitis / Bernard Seytre, Mary Shaffer.
by Seytre, Bernard; Shaffer, Mary.
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BookPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005Description: 161 p.ISBN: 9780813536767 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780813536774 (pbk. : alk. paper).Uniform titles: Histoire de l'éradication de la poliomyélite.Subject(s): Poliomyelitis -- History | Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History | Poliomyelitis -- prevention & control | History, 20th Century | Vaccination -- historyOnline resources: Table of contents
Contents:
The last victims -- A lifetime burden -- A virus with a long history -- The people versus polio -- Freed from the iron lung -- Coming along at the right time: Jonas Salk -- Behind the scenes -- The largest medical experiment in history -- The race for an oral vaccine -- Revolution in the production of vaccines -- Polio: programmed for defeat -- The end game -- The challenge of eradication.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The last victims -- A lifetime burden -- A virus with a long history -- The people versus polio -- Freed from the iron lung -- Coming along at the right time: Jonas Salk -- Behind the scenes -- The largest medical experiment in history -- The race for an oral vaccine -- Revolution in the production of vaccines -- Polio: programmed for defeat -- The end game -- The challenge of eradication.
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