LEADER 04252nam 2200625 450 001 9910784664703321 005 20230617004953.0 010 $a0-19-984008-3 010 $a1-280-50198-7 010 $a1-4237-4653-8 010 $a0-19-972659-0 010 $a1-60256-825-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000363040 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087422 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223334 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12075787 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223334 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182916 035 $a(PQKB)10075957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279565 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279565 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11197667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL50198 035 $a(OCoLC)62866046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5746314 035 $a(OCoLC)1096454592 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000363040 100 $a20170105h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolio $ean American story /$fDavid M. Oshinsky 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 342 p., [16] p. of plates ) $cill., ports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-530714-3 311 $a0-19-515294-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis is the gripping story of the 1950s polio epidemic that terrified America and how it was conquered in a bitter competition between two brilliant scientists. 330 $bAll 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. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. 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. Indeed, the competition was marked by a deep-seated ill will among the researchers that remained with them until their deaths. The author 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. As backdrop to this feverish research, Oshinsky offers an insightful look at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in the 1930s by FDR and Basil O'Connor. The National Foundation revolutionized fundraising and the perception of disease in America, using "poster children" and the famous March of Dimes to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from a vast army of contributors (instead of a few well-heeled benefactors), creating the largest research and rehabilitation network in the history of medicine. The polio experience also revolutionized the way in which the government licensed and tested new drugs before allowing them on the market, and the way in which the legal system dealt with manufacturers' liability for unsafe products. Finally, and perhaps most tellingly, Oshinsky reveals that polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed by the media, but in truth a relatively uncommon disease. But in baby-booming America--increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and hygiene-obsessed--the specter of polio, like the specter of the atomic bomb, soon became a cloud of terror over daily life. Both a gripping scientific suspense story and a provocative social and cultural history, Polio opens a fresh window onto postwar America. 606 $aPoliomyelitis$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aPoliomyelitis$xHistory 676 $a614.5490973 700 $aOshinsky$b David M.$f1944-$01502213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784664703321 996 $aPolio$93729843 997 $aUNINA