TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mawdsley,Stephen E.
TI  - Selling science: polio and the promise of gamma globulin 
T2  - Critical issues in health and medicine
SN  - 9780813574400
AV  - RA644 .S455 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Hammon, William McD.
KW  - National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
KW  - History
KW  - Science
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Clinical trials
KW  - United States
KW  - Children
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Gamma globulins
KW  - Research
KW  - Poliomyelitis
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Forging momentum --; Building consent for a clinical trial --; Marketing and mobilization --; Selling science --; Operation marbles and lollipops --; The national experiment; 2; b
N2  - "In Selling Science : Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley examines the untold story of the first effort to control polio prior to the development of the Salk vaccine. In the early 1950s, Dr. William McD. Hammon and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis launched a pioneering medical experiment on a previously untried scale. Conducted on over 55,000 healthy children in Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, this landmark study attempted to assess the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, 'gamma globulin' (which is derived by a process known as 'fractionation') to prevent paralytic polio. Although the study was condemned by many prominent health professionals, harbored potential risks, and returned dubious results, it was perceived as a triumph and used to justify a national immunization program from 1953 to 1954"--Provided by publisher
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