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    Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs.
    Summary: "He 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"-- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Prologue: Two plagues
    Born to serve
    Finding his place
    A wedding and a war
    Joining the fight against influenza
    Vaccine neophyte
    Pittsburgh's virgin territory
    Polio
    The chosen
    Ready to run
    Research sub rosa
    Out of his hands
    The world's largest clinical trial
    Relief from fear
    The Cutter affair
    Fame and its consequences
    Act II
    Two cultures under one roof
    The price of a masterpiece
    Seeking Shangri-La
    A trouble marriage
    Harnessing the immune system
    A most unusual arrangement
    Salk unfolding
    Fall from grace
    Final fling
    Marginalized
    The swine flu snafu
    Return to the polio vaccine controversy
    A Trojan horse
    Disciples, sycophants, and lovers
    AIDS: Salk's next mountain
    Unbowed.
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    Books: History - LC Classification (Downstairs)
    2015
    QR31.S25 J33 2015
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