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ISBN 10: 0199334439
ISBN 13: 9780199334438 
Author: Charlotte Decroes Jacob

When 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 proper credit to other researchers and scorned his taste for media attention. Even before success catapulted him into the limelight, Salk was an inscrutable man disliked by many of his peers. Driven by an intense desire to aid mankind, he was initially oblivious and eventually resigned to the personal cost–as well as the costs suffered by his family and friends. And yet Salk remained, in the eyes of the public, an adored hero. Based on hundreds of personal interviews and unprecedented access to Salk’s sealed archives, Jacobs’ biography offers the most complete picture of this complicated figure. Salk’s story has never been fully told; until now, his role in preventing polio has overshadowed his part in co-developing the first influenza vaccine, his effort to meld the sciences and humanities in the magnificent Salk Institute, and his pioneering work on AIDS. A vivid and intimate portrait, this will become the standard work on the remarkable life of Jonas Salk.

Jonas Salk A Life 1st Table of contents:

1. Born to Serve

2. Finding His Place

3. A Wedding and a War

4. Joining the Fight Against Influenza

5. Vaccine Neophyte

6. Pittsburgh’s Virgin Territory

7. Polio

8. The Chosen

9. Ready to Run

10. Research Sub Rosa

11. Out of His Hands

12. The World’s Largest Clinical Trial

13. Relief from Fear

14. The Cutter Affair

15. Fame and Its Consequences

16. Act II

17. Two Cultures Under One Roof

18. The Price of a Masterpiece

19. Seeking Shangri-La

20. A Troubled Marriage

21. Harnessing the Immune System

22. A Most Unusual Arrangement

23. Salk Unfolding

24. Fall from Grace

25. Final Fling

26. Marginalized

27. The Swine Flu Snafu

28. Return to the Polio Vaccine Controversy

29. A Trojan Horse

30. Disciples, Sycophants, and Lovers

31. AidsSalk’s Next Mountain

32. Unbowed

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