Polio
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Polio
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein NunnFinally , Roosevelt's family contacted Dr. Samuel Levine at the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission . Dr. Levine called Dr. Robert Lovett , a medical specialist at Harvard ...
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Polio: An American Story
By David M. OshinskyA history of the 1950s polio epidemic that caused panic in the United States examines the competition between Salk and Sabin to find the first vaccine and its implications for such issues as government testing of new drugs and manufacturers ...
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Polio: Post-Polio Syndrome
By Anne Elizabeth NixonThe author contracted polio in the early 1950s. She explains that post-polio symptoms often return later in life. Recognizing this early-on can help prepare for the downslide many experience.
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Polio: An American Story
By David M. OshinskyNIH Director William Sebrell and his chief assistant, James Shannon, sat in for the government. ... When Thomas Francis phoned the society to complain, he was told that Winchell's program “had caused a great deal of confusion and that ...
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Polio: An American Story
By David M. OshinskyHere 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.
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Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication
By Thomas AbrahamWhy do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
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Polio
By Daniel J. WilsonSurveys the history of polio, with information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and the latest clinical research.
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Polio
By Thomas M. Daniel, Frederick C. RobbinsThe story of polio, from its earliest depiction in Egyptian art to the present day, in the words of sufferers, doctors and the scientists tasked with eradicating the disease. First paperback edition. Copyright © Libri GmbH.
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Polio
By Alan HechtDiscusses the history of the poliovirus, its effects on the body, vaccines and the researchers who discovered them, and the threat that this virus still poses.
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Polio
By Tamra B. OrrDiscusses the history of the poliovirus, its effects on the body, vaccines and the researchers who discovered them, and the threat that this virus still poses.
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Polio
By Timothy Grayson-JonesFor many decades, scientists could do little to treat polio_they knew its symptoms but had no idea how it was transmitted, or what caused the illness.
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Polio
By Carol HandPolio once frightened parents every summer.
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Polio
By Alan HechtPresents an overview of the disease polio, covering its history, transmission, and other aspects, and the lives of vaccine developers Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk.
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Polio
By Daniel J. WilsonBeyond the science, Polio looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it.