Polio: an American story
Award winning non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Account of the twentieth-century search for a polio vaccine and the rivalries that developed between competing medical researchers, notably Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and Hilary Koprowski. Traces the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigns and the public health experiment involving… Salk's vaccine. Evokes the widespread panic over the disease. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history. 2005.
Title Details
ISBN
9780195152944
Publisher
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Copyright Date
2005
Book number
2413261
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Steven Carpenter
Duration
12 hours 43 minutes 31 seconds
Audio producer
Potomac Talking Book Services
Braille details for CELA title
Volumes
16
Braille producer
CNIB, 2007.