Ebook {Epub PDF} Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky






















 · The film also features interviews with those who were part of the Salk vaccine, Pulitzer Prize winner David Oshinsky (Polio: An American Story"), and Bill + connections. Polio: an American story / David M. Oshinsky. Other records: Author/Creator: Oshinsky, David M., author. Publication: Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York: Oxford University Press, This is the gripping story of the s polio epidemic that terrified America and how it was conquered in a bitter competition between two. Polio: An American Story - Ebook written by David M. Oshinsky. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Polio: An American Story.


Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in He won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, Polio: An American Story. Oshinsky's most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital, was published in He 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. Oshinsky offers an insightful look at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in the s by FDR and Basil O'Connor, it revolutionized. Polio - Hardcover - David M. Oshinsky - Oxford University Press. $ Hardcover. Published: 12 April Pages | 30 halftones. /8 x /4 inches. ISBN:


Overview. Here 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. 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. Here 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. Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the s and s and the race to develop a vaccine, which led to 2 different types of polio vaccine: inactivated poliovirus vaccine, developed by a team led by Jonas Salk, and oral poliovirus vaccine, developed by a team led by.

0コメント

  • 1000 / 1000