Polio

by Daniel J. Wilson

Book Overview

A compelling account of the most feared childhood disease of the 20th century and its impact on victims and medical science.

This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313358974
• ISBN13: 9780313358975
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher