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Title Page 2 Copyright Notice 3 Contents 4 Dedication 6 Epigraph 7 Introduction 8 1. The Paralyzed President 13 2. A Nation at War with Polio 19 3. A Young Man from Pittsburgh 25 4. The Vaccine that Opened Pandora’s Box 33 5. Triumph and Disaster 43 6. Does Anyone Know What’s in This Vaccine? 50 7. The Virus Discovered 58 8. “We Were Scared of SV40” 69 9. “The Worst Thing in the World” 77 10. Why Not a Safer Vaccine? 89 11. Everyone Knows SV40 Doesn’t Cause Cancer 98 12. “A Wild-Assed Idea” 107 13. Don’t Inflame the Public 117 14. A Call to Turn Aside the Dogma 126 15. On the Scientific Map 134 16. The Perfect War Machine 145 17. A Study Marred by Strife 155 18. Wasted Time, Wasted Money 162 19. No Funding, No Research 173 20. Alexander’s Tumor 182 Conclusion 194 Notes and Sources 199 Appendix A: Association of SV40 with Human Disease 227 Appendix B: Correspondence between Bernice Eddy, Joseph Smadel, and Roderick Murray (chapters 6 and 7) 234 Appendix C: Documents and Articles Concerning the Discovery of SV40 in Salk’s and Sabin’s Vaccines (chapters 8 and 9) 236 Appendix D: Memos and Correspondence Relating to Multi-Laboratory Study and Carbone-Pass Rapid Access to Intervention De
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- Author
- Schumacher, Jim & Bookchin, Debbie
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Language
- EN
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (61 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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