Polio An American Story

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.

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.

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

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Polio An American Story

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