Polio An American Story

by Oshinsky, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780195152944
• ISBN10: 0195152948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

David M. Oshinsky is George Littlefield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A leading historian of modern American politics and society, he is the author of A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy and "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, both of which won major prizes and were New York Times Notable Books.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
The First Epidemics	8	(16)
Warm Springs	24	(19)
``Cripples' Money''	43	(18)
``And They Shall Walk''	61	(18)
Poster Children, Marching Mothers	79	(13)
The Apprenticeship of Jonas Salk	92	(20)
Pathway to a Vaccine	112	(16)
The Starting Line	128	(17)
Seeing Beyond the Microscope	145	(16)
``Plague Season''	161	(13)
The Rivals	174	(14)
``The Biggest Public Health Experiment Ever''	188	(26)
The Cutter Fiasco	214	(23)
Mission to Moscow	237	(18)
Sabin Sundays	255	(14)
Celebrities and Survivors	269	(18)
Epilogue	287	(2)
Notes	289	(39)
Selected Bibliography	328	(5)
Acknowledgments	333	(2)
Index	335