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Author:

Kluger, Jeffrey.

Title:

Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio / Jeffrey Kluger.

Publisher:

Putnam's,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Salk, Jonas,--1914-1995.
Poliomyelitis--United States--History.
Poliomyelitis--History.--History.
Poliomyelitis vaccine--History.
Virologists--United States--Biography.
Salk, Jonas,--1914-1995.
Poliomyelitis--History.
Poliomyelitis--History.--History.
Poliomyelitis vaccine--History.
Virologists--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-358) and index.

Summary:

Presents a comprehensive study of Jonas Salk and his years of research in the 1950s on finding a vaccine for Infantile Paralysis, and discusses the controversy that surrounded his work and experiments.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Senior High School
Library Journal Starred
Booklist starred

ISBN:

9780399152160
0399152164 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2004050527

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