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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forging momentum -- Building consent for a clinical trial -- Marketing and mobilization -- Selling science -- Operation marbles and lollipops -- The national experiment. |
| Summary |
"In Selling Science : Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley examines the untold story of the first effort to control polio prior to the development of the Salk vaccine. In the early 1950s, Dr. William McD. Hammon and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis launched a pioneering medical experiment on a previously untried scale. Conducted on over 55,000 healthy children in Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, this landmark study attempted to assess the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, 'gamma globulin' (which is derived by a process known as 'fractionation') to prevent paralytic polio. Although the study was condemned by many prominent health professionals, harbored potential risks, and returned dubious results, it was perceived as a triumph and used to justify a national immunization program from 1953 to 1954"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hammon, William McD. (William McDowell), 1904-1989.
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Hammon, William McD. (William McDowell), 1904-1989. |
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis -- History.
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. |
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History. |
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Science -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Science -- Economic aspects. |
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20th century |
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Science. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Clinical trials -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Clinical trials. |
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United States. |
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Children -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century.
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Children -- Diseases. |
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Gamma globulins -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Gamma globulins. |
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Research. |
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Poliomyelitis -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Poliomyelitis -- Research. |
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Poliomyelitis -- United States -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century.
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Poliomyelitis. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mawdsley, Stephen E. Selling science. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016 9780813574394 0813574390 (DLC) 2015037355 (OCoLC)927618771 |
| ISBN |
9780813574400 (electronic book) |
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0813574404 (electronic book) |
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9780813574417 (electronic book) |
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0813574412 (electronic book) |
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9780813574394 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813574390 |
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