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Poliomyelitis : emergence to eradication / M.R. Smallman-Raynor ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library RC180.9 .P656 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smallman-Raynor, Matthew.
- Series:
- Oxford geographical and environmental studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poliomyelitis--history.
- Poliomyelitis--prevention & control.
- Poliomyelitis--History.
- Poliomyelitis.
- Poliomyelitis--Prevention.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine--History.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Poliomyelitis--history.
- Poliomyelitis--prevention & control.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 734 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.
- Notes:
- At head of title: "A world geography."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [672]-709) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 019924474X
- OCLC:
- 64554630
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199244744
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