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Jonas Salk : A Life.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (588 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199334421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jonas SalkDDC classification:
  • 579.2092 B
LOC classification:
  • QR31.S25 -- J33 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Jonas Salk: A Life -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Prologue: Two Plagues -- Chapter 1: Born to Serve -- Chapter 2: Finding His Place -- Chapter 3: A Wedding and a War -- Chapter 4: Joining the Fight Against Influenza -- Chapter 5: Vaccine Neophyte -- Chapter 6: Pittsburgh's Virgin Territory -- Chapter 7: Polio -- Chapter 8: The Chosen -- Chapter 9: Ready to Run -- Chapter 10: Research Sub Rosa -- Chapter 11: Out of His Hands -- Chapter 12: The World's Largest Clinical Trial -- Chapter 13: Relief from Fear -- Chapter 14: The Cutter Affair -- Chapter 15: Fame and Its Consequences -- Chapter 16: Act II -- Chapter 17: Two Cultures Under One Roof -- Chapter 18: The Price of a Masterpiece -- Chapter 19: Seeking Shangri-La -- Chapter 20: A Troubled Marriage -- Chapter 21: Harnessing the Immune System -- Chapter 22: A Most Unusual Arrangement -- Chapter 23: Salk Unfolding -- Chapter 24: Fall from Grace -- Chapter 25: Final fling -- Chapter 26: Marginalized -- Chapter 27: The Swine Flu Snafu -- Chapter 28: Return to the Polio Vaccine Controversy -- Chapter 29: A Trojan Horse -- Chapter 30: Disciples, Sycophants, and Lovers -- Chapter 31: AIDS: Salk's Next Mountain -- chapter 32: Unbowed -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Chapter 30 -- Chapter 31 -- Chapter 32 -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Books and Journal Articles -- Author's Interviews -- Index.
Summary: The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.
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Cover -- Jonas Salk: A Life -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Prologue: Two Plagues -- Chapter 1: Born to Serve -- Chapter 2: Finding His Place -- Chapter 3: A Wedding and a War -- Chapter 4: Joining the Fight Against Influenza -- Chapter 5: Vaccine Neophyte -- Chapter 6: Pittsburgh's Virgin Territory -- Chapter 7: Polio -- Chapter 8: The Chosen -- Chapter 9: Ready to Run -- Chapter 10: Research Sub Rosa -- Chapter 11: Out of His Hands -- Chapter 12: The World's Largest Clinical Trial -- Chapter 13: Relief from Fear -- Chapter 14: The Cutter Affair -- Chapter 15: Fame and Its Consequences -- Chapter 16: Act II -- Chapter 17: Two Cultures Under One Roof -- Chapter 18: The Price of a Masterpiece -- Chapter 19: Seeking Shangri-La -- Chapter 20: A Troubled Marriage -- Chapter 21: Harnessing the Immune System -- Chapter 22: A Most Unusual Arrangement -- Chapter 23: Salk Unfolding -- Chapter 24: Fall from Grace -- Chapter 25: Final fling -- Chapter 26: Marginalized -- Chapter 27: The Swine Flu Snafu -- Chapter 28: Return to the Polio Vaccine Controversy -- Chapter 29: A Trojan Horse -- Chapter 30: Disciples, Sycophants, and Lovers -- Chapter 31: AIDS: Salk's Next Mountain -- chapter 32: Unbowed -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Chapter 30 -- Chapter 31 -- Chapter 32 -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Books and Journal Articles -- Author's Interviews -- Index.

The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

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