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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture.
Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13. With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before one of the worst polio epidemics in United States history. At the time, the disease was a terrifying enigma:...
6) Jonas Salk
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the century.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people....
15) Jonas Salk
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Burdett
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the scientist who developed a vaccine that conquered polio.
17) Jonas Salk
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Profiles the man who made his mark as developer of a polio vaccine, struggled to deal with the resultant fame, and emerged as a philosoper/scientist, writing and speaking about our responsibility for the future.
