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| View Larger Image | In Search of the Polio Vaccine (History Channel) (A&E DVD Archives) | DVDStarring: Artist Not Provided
| List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $22.49 | | You Save: | $2.46 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 50 minutes | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | A&E Home Video | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | April 26, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 44,289th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1 review)
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Curing Polio by Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA)  3 Stars
June 03, 2007
This would be a great work for both science and history enthusiasts. They speak of the problem of polio and how a cure was found. It talks about the creation of the March of Dimes and the Salk Institute. It emphasizes the pivotal role that FDR, a polio victim, played in the effort. (This reminded me of Michael J. Fox and his work on Parkinson's.) The documentary showed white and black polio victims and children getting vaccinations. This is important as during the segregated 1950s, blacks were often not given resources and multiracial images were discouraged on TV as it might upset Southern leaders. Though this work interviews men and women, the only polio victims interviewed were women. This, unfortunately, may make it look like only females got the disease or that only females lived to tell about it decades later. As that is incorrect, some male presence would have been helpful. The work is narrated by a voice that sounds like it's from the times when the news was showed before movies in old-timey theaters. As much as I appreciated learning of the pioneering efforts of Dr. J. Salk and others, they sure did a lot of stuff that would violate biomedical ethics today.
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| Polio: An American Story
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin. He also tells the story of Isabel Morgan, perhaps the most talented of all...
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| American Experience: The Polio Crusade
Based in part on David Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Polio: An American Story, this one-hour film chronicles a decades-long crusade, fueled by the bold leadership of a single philanthropy and its innovative public relations campaign, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a forgotten woman researcher.
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