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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Polio was a scourge that terrified generations of people throughout the United States and the rest of the world until Jonas Salk’s vaccine provided the first effective defense against it. In Jonas Salk: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2015),

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December 29, 201759m 42s

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Polio was a scourge that terrified generations of people throughout the United States and the rest of the world until Jonas Salk’s vaccine provided the first effective defense against it. In Jonas Salk: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2015), Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs chronicles the medical researcher whose success in developing...

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