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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio Paperback - 2006

by Kluger, Jeffrey

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Chronicling Dr. Jonas Salk's race against time and a growing polio epidemic that reached 57,000 cases in the summer of 1952, this biography brings to life the medical breakthrough that made Salk a cultural hero and icon.

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  • Title Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
  • Author Kluger, Jeffrey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York
  • Date 2006-02-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # U14A-03604
  • ISBN 9780425205709 / 0425205703
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.1 x 1.03 in (22.71 x 15.49 x 2.62 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Poliomyelitis - United States - History, Poliomyelitis vaccine - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

In medical school when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with the disease shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to conduct studies on polio. 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 more than fifty 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-and a growing epidemic that reached 57,000 reported cases in the summer of 1952-to achieve an unparalleled medical breakthrough that made him a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation.

From the publisher

Jeffrey Klugeris a senior writer at Time. Coauthor of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13, he is also the author of Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System.

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All the talk about the little white coffins seemed to start out of nowhere, but when it did, the word spread fast.

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Media reviews

Tense and gripping...Tells how polio was beaten fifty years ago in one of the triumphs of modern medicine. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Citations

  • New York Times, 04/16/2006, Page 24

About the author

Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME magazine and the author of twelve books, including The Narcissist Next Door, Splendid Solution, Apollo 13, Apollo 8 and the novel Holdout. He has written more than 40 cover stories for TIME on topics ranging from space to human behavior to climate to medicine. Along with others at TIME, Kluger is an Emmy nominee for the web series A Year in Space.

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