Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

Jeffrey Kluger

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4.10 · 10 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 27 Jan 2005
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger
The story of the polio vaccine and its enterprising creator, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics and a discrediting rival researcher nearly prevented the vaccine's development. 75,000 first printing.
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