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Splendid Solution:Jonas Salk and the Conquest Of Polio
[Paperback - 2006]
jeffrey kluger
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Category: Medical
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Additional Category: Biography & Autobiography - Others
Publisher: Berkley | ISBN: 9780425205709 | Pages: 384
Shipping Weight: .405 | Dimensions: 6 x .95 x 9 inches

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The compelling true story of Dr. Jonas Salk's quest to develop a vaccine for polio.

In 1916, the United States was hit with one of the worst polio epidemics in history. The disease was a terrifying enigma: striking out of nowhere, it afflicted tens of thousands of children and left them—literally overnight—paralyzed. Others it simply killed. At the same time, a child named Jonas Salk was born....

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to study this deadly illness. After assisting in the creation of an influenza vaccine, Salk took up the challenge. His progress in combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher determined to discredit his proposed solution. But Salk's perseverance made history—and for close to seventy years his vaccine has saved countless lives, bringing humanity close to eradicating polio throughout the world.

Splendid Solution chronicles Dr. Salk's race against time to achieve an unparalleled breakthrough that made him a cultural hero and icon of modern medicine.

About the Author

Jeffrey Klugeris editor at large forTimemagazine and the author or coauthor of twelve books, includingApollo 13,Apollo 8, and two novels for young adults. He has written more than forty cover stories forTimeon topics ranging from space to human behavior to climate to medicine. Along with others atTime, Kluger won an Emmy for the web seriesA Year in Space. He consulted on and appeared in the Tom Hanks movieApollo 13.

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