Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

Jonas Salk (eBook, ePUB)

A Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people. And yet the one group whose adulation he craved--the scientific community--remained ominously silent. "The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success," Salk later said. "I knew right away that I was through--cast out." In the first complete biography of Jonas Salk, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs unravels Salk's story to reveal an unconventional scientist and a misunderstood and vulnerable man. Despite his incredible success in developing the polio vaccine, Salk was ostracized by his fellow scientists, who accused him of failing to give proper credit to other researchers and scorned his taste for media attention. Even before success catapulted him into the limelight, Salk was an inscrutable man disliked by many of his peers. Driven by an intense desire to aid mankind, he was initially oblivious and eventually resigned to the personal cost--as well as the costs suffered by his family and friends. And yet Salk remained, in the eyes of the public, an adored hero. Based on hundreds of personal interviews and unprecedented access to Salk's sealed archives, Jacobs' biography offers the most complete picture of this complicated figure. Salk's story has never been fully told; until now, his role in preventing polio has overshadowed his part in co-developing the first influenza vaccine, his effort to meld the sciences and humanities in the magnificent Salk Institute, and his pioneering work on AIDS. A vivid and intimate portrait, this will become the standard work on the remarkable life of Jonas Salk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199334438
• Artikelnr.: 42619435

Autorenporträt

Charlotte D. Jacobs, M.D. is the Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita) at Stanford University. She has served as Senior Associate Dean and as Director of the Clinical Cancer Center, and is the author of Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease.

Inhaltsangabe

* PROLOGUE
TWO PLAGUES * CHAPTER 1
BORN WITH A CAUL * CHAPTER 2
BIG SHOT * CHAPTER 3
TENACITY * CHAPTER 4
FIGHTING A GHOST * CHAPTER 5
VACCINE NEOPHYTE * CHAPTER 6
VIRGIN TERRITORY * CHAPTER 7
THE DISEASE KNOWN AS POLIO * CHAPTER 8
THE CHOSEN * CHAPTER 9
RENEGADE RESEARCHER * CHAPTER 10
TORN FROM HIS ARMS * CHAPTER 11
THE WORLD'S LARGEST CLINICAL TRIAL * CHAPTER 12
IT WORKS! * CHAPTER 13
THE CUTTER INCIDENT * CHAPTER 14
BIRTH OF AN ICON * CHAPTER 15
ACT II * CHAPTER 16
TWO CULTURES * CHAPTER 17
AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE * CHAPTER 18
A SCIENTIFIC SHANGRI
LA * CHAPTER 19
DIVORCED * CHAPTER 20
HARNESSING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM * CHAPTER 21
LIONS MATE WITH LIONS * CHAPTER 22
SALK UNFOLDING * CHAPTER 23
FALL FROM GRACE * CHAPTER 24
UNBRIDLED FREEDOM * CHAPTER 25
NEMESIS * CHAPTER 26
THE SWINE FLU SNAFU * CHAPTER 27
FINAL FLING * CHAPTER 28
POLIO REDUX * CHAPTER 29
AIDE
MÉMOIRE * CHAPTER 30
DISCIPLES, SYCOPHANTS, AND LOVERS * CHAPTER 31
THE CLARION CALL TO AIDS * CHAPTER 32
UNRESOLVED CHAGRIN