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Polio: An American Story
Escrito por David Oshinsky
Narrado por Jonathan Hogan
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Multiple New York Times Notable Book winner and University of Texas professor, David M. Oshinsky is a leading American political and cultural historian. Garnering the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History, this comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America’s relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk’s killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin’s live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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Polio: An American Story
Escrito por David Oshinsky
Narrado por Jonathan Hogan
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Multiple New York Times Notable Book winner and University of Texas professor, David M. Oshinsky is a leading American political and cultural historian. Garnering the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History, this comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America’s relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk’s killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin’s live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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Very interesting, well researched work of nonfiction delving into the horrors of the polio epidemic in the 1950’s and the race to find a cure. Myself having been born in 1955, I found this of particular interest as I entered this world right in the middle of it! In thinking back I believe I must have received the Salk vaccine (the “dead virus” one vs. the Sabin “live virus” vaccine) because, although I don’t remember the initial inoculation, I DO remember receiving at least one booster shot! We lived in a very small town in New York during my early years, a village really, and I also remember an older girl in our village who was paralyzed from the disease and lived in a wheel chair. I imagine this whole horror (the wheelchairs, the paralysis, the leg braces, the iron lungs, etc.) must have had a devastating effect on all of our young psyches, and most likely played a good part in our conscious as well as unconscious nightmares. I’m quite certain this was indeed true for me.
There were so many fascinating facts in this book about the disease (one which flourished mostly in the most modern industrialized areas with the best sanitation practices and thus came about because of TOO MUCH cleanliness!) as well as all the players (and their personalities!) in the race to eradicate it. The book goes into so many people involved that it became somewhat tedious after awhile to remember them all and to keep everyone straight. That would be my main criticism of this otherwise excellent book and also, perhaps, it was a little too long. Nonetheless most definitely worth a listen, especially for those of us who grew up in this era.
There were so many fascinating facts in this book about the disease (one which flourished mostly in the most modern industrialized areas with the best sanitation practices and thus came about because of TOO MUCH cleanliness!) as well as all the players (and their personalities!) in the race to eradicate it. The book goes into so many people involved that it became somewhat tedious after awhile to remember them all and to keep everyone straight. That would be my main criticism of this otherwise excellent book and also, perhaps, it was a little too long. Nonetheless most definitely worth a listen, especially for those of us who grew up in this era.