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Polio

An American Story

Polio( )
Author: Oshinsky, David M.
ISBN:978-0-19-515294-4
Publication Date:Apr 2005
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $51.77AUD $72.95
Book Description:

The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense--and intensely bitter--competition to find the first vaccine.

Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Nervous System (Incl. Brain)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
Book Weight:0.064 Kilograms
Author Biography
Oshinsky, David M. (Author)
He is also an associate editor of the American National Biography.

Oshinsky writes about the brutality of penitentiary life in his book, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. He earned a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an appointment as Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin for his work on the penitentiary project. Oshinsky also received the 17th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his novel.

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