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- BookCharlotte 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.