{"product_id":"jonas-salk-9780190679163","title":"Jonas Salk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people. And yet the one group whose adulation he craved--the scientific community--remained ominously silent. The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success, Salk later said. I knew right away that I was through-cast out. In the first complete biography of Jonas Salk, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs unravels Salk''s story to reveal an unconventional scientist and a misunderstood and vulnerable man. Despite his incredible success in developing the polio vaccine, Salk was ostracized by his fellow scientists, who accused him of failing to give \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChosen as New York Times Book Review \"100 Notable Books of 2015\"\u003cbr\u003eThis is science writing at its best.\" - New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e...[R]emarkable, warts-and-all biography... sweeping and sympathetic narrative.\" - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e...[I]nsightful... With an unerring sense of pace, Jacobs... relates the story of this complex man and his remarkable life as a scientific pioneer and a popular icon.\" - Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e...[F]ills a gap worth filling.\" - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinarily rich biography of the doctor Americans adored and all but regarded as a saint... Jacobs makes a convincing case that Salk was a shy man who never succeeded in making the scientific or personal connections that could bring happiness, but his idealism proved a boon to mankind.\" - Kirkus Reviews, starred review\u003cbr\u003e[A] treasure trove of facts and stories... Recommended to readers of scientific biographies and those interested in the practice of science in America.\" - Library Journal\u003cbr\u003eThe story of Jonas Salk is an endlessly fascinating one and in Charlotte Jacobs's capable hands this will be a winner and an important book. * Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and Professor and Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003eFeatured in- Health Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue - Two Plagues Chapter 1 - Born with a Caul  Chapter 2 - Big Shot  Chapter 3 - Tenacity  Chapter 4 - Fighting a Ghost  Chapter 5 - Vaccine Neophyte Chapter 6 - Virgin Territory   Chapter 7 - The Disease Known as Polio  Chapter 8 - The Chosen Chapter 9 - Renegade Researcher   Chapter 10 - Torn from His Arms Chapter 11 - The World's Largest Clinical Trial Chapter 12 - It Works! Chapter 13 - The Cutter Incident  Chapter 14 - Birth of an Icon Chapter 15 - Act II  Chapter 16 - Two Cultures   Chapter 17 - An Architectural Masterpiece   Chapter 18 - A Scientific Shangri-La Chapter 19 - Divorced Chapter 20 - Harnessing the Immune System Chapter 21 - Lions Mate with Lions Chapter 22 - Salk Unfolding  Chapter 23 - Fall from Grace  Chapter 24 - Unbridled Freedom  Chapter 25 - Nemesis  Chapter 26 - The Swine Flu Snafu  Chapter 27 - Final Fling Chapter 28 - Polio Redux  Chapter 29 - Aide-Memoire Chapter 30 - Disciples, Sycophants, and Lovers  Chapter 31 - The Clarion Call to AIDS Chapter 32 - Unresolved Chagrin","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524556693847,"sku":"9780190679163","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190679163.jpg?v=1731857242","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jonas-salk-9780190679163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}