Documents the polio terror in the early 1950s and the competitive race to create a vaccine and a cure. Explores whether polio was a real or media-induced epidemic. Details the competition between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to find a cure, and explains how the government conducted the largest public-health experiment involving a million school children when the Salk vaccine was created. Describes the creation of a national foundation to raise money for research and rehabilitation.
Provides an overview of polio, explaining how it effects humans, the history of the disease, vaccines, post-polio syndrome, famous individuals who have contracted it, and other related topics.
Three women struggle against overwhelming odds to find freedom in the summer of 1964, and all three find their own path to independence, understanding, and peace, despite the obstacles fate throws at them.
Presents a comprehensive study of Jonas Salk and his years of research in the 1950s on finding a vaccine for Infantile Paralysis, and discusses the controversy that surrounded his work and experiments.
Rebecca is sent to summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, where she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
After surviving the horrors of polio, Caroline is ashamed of her leg brace and limp and dreams of playing hockey, but first she must overcome her fears.
In 1946 twelve-year-old Keely is devastated when her older brother Patrick is paralyzed by polio, and she starts a campaign to reawaken his waning interest in life.
