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.
Christy Bannister, a fourteen-year-old boy, forms a unique friendship with a twenty-three-year-old quadriplegic who lives in an iron lung and teaches Christy some important lessons about life and love.
Ann Fay is concerned about her family after she returns from the polio hospital and discovers that her father is changed after fighting in World War II, but the opportunity to receive treatment in Georgia offers her comfort, until she gets news that her family is getting worse.
Grant, Weng-Ho, and Seve go on a field trip to Warm Springs, Georgia, to visit the home of President Franklin Roosevelt and learn about FDR, polio, and a Creek Indian legend.
Presents a profile of twentieth-century scientist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, discussing his childhood in New York, his education, and the significance of his vaccine and other research in medical science.
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.
