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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 184. Chapters: Jonas Salk, Debora Green, Ezekiel Emanuel, Howard Dean, Joseph Widney, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Luke P. Blackburn, Donald Arthur, John R. Brinkley, Ed Roberts (computer engineer), Elizabeth Blackwell, Doc Adams, Larry McDonald, James McCune Smith, Zuhdi Jasser, Benjamin Rush, Cyril Wecht, Edward Cutbush, Tom Frieden, Camran Nezhat, Herbert Ratner, Phog Allen, Jim Yong Kim, William Alexander Hammond, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Benjamin Spock, Stephen Barrett, Robert Lefkowitz, Samuel Gridley Howe, George Tiller, Sam Sheppard, Robert Provenzano, Paul M. Ellwood, Jr., Paul Broun, Samuel Mudd, Sneha Anne Philip, William Stewart Halsted, Joseph Mercola, Miguel Faria, Kenneth Kaushansky, Richard A. Cash, Samuel L. Stanley, C. Everett Koop, Kyle Janek, Spurgeon Neel, Jayant Patel, O. M. Wozencraft, Richard Fuisz, Allan Hamilton, Frederick T. van Beuren, Jr., Michael Swango. Excerpt: Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents. Although they had little formal education, his parents were determined to see their children succeed. While attending New York University School of Medicine, Salk stood out from his peers not just because of his academic prowess, but because he went into medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States. Annual epidemics were increasingly devastating. The 1952 epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis, with most of its victims being children....
