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_aRC 180.9 _b.P442 2005 |
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_aPeters, Stephanie True, _d1965- _912959 |
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_aThe battle against polio _cby Stephanie True Peters. |
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_aNew York : _bBenchmark Books, _cc2005. |
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_aNew York : _bBenchmark Books, _cc2005. |
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_aix, 69 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c27 cm. |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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490 | 1 | _aEpidemic! | |
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 63-67) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : tragedy and triumph -- From obscurity to epidemic. What is polio? Polio's early history. On the heels of the industrial revolution -- The early years of polio research. Dr. Ivar Wickman. Landsteiner and Popper. Dr. Simon Flexner -- Polio on the rise. New York city epidemic, 1916. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A bright spot -- Coping with the incurable. The iron lung. Sister Kenny, crusader against polio. Ordinary people, extraordinary lives. -- Vaccine trials--and errors. Brodie and Kolmer. The typing program. The 1952 epidemic -- Salk and Sabin. The Sabin vaccine -- Conclusion: polio today. | |
520 | _aDiscusses the cause of polio and the infection process, its history and search for a cure, and the course it took in the United States between 1900 and the early 1960s. | ||
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_aPoliomyelitis _xHistory _vJuvenile literature. _912961 |
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_aPeters, Stephanie True, _d1965- _tEpidemic! _912963 |
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_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004003408.html |
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