Polio: An American Story
Author | David M. Oshinsky |
---|---|
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 2005 |
Pages | 342 |
ISBN | 0-19-515294-8 |
Polio: An American Story is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure, which was eventually developed in the 1950s by medical researcher Jonas Salk.
It was published in 2005 by the Oxford University Press and won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2005 Herbert Hoover Book Award.
References
- "History professor wins Pulitzer Prize for "Polio: An American Story"" (Press release). The University of Texas at Austin. April 17, 2006. Retrieved 2006-04-25.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, November 22, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.