Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources Works Cited
Finger, Anne. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. New York: St. Martin's, 2006. Print.
I used Elegy For A Disease A personal and cultural history of Polio to learn about the history of polio and how the disease evolved.
Gould, Tony. A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. Print.
I used A Summer Plague Polio and its survivors to learn about what is was like as the disease broke out and chaos created by this disease from first hand survivors.
Kehret, Peg. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman, 1996. Print.
I used Small Steps: The year I got polio to experience from the view of a young girl what is was like to contract polio and battle it.
Linduska, Noreen. My Polio Past... Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947. Print.
I used My Polio Past to learn about what is was like to contract polio from the point of view of a young girl.
Mason, Martha. Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung : A Memoir. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. Print.
I used Breath: a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron long to learn more about the iron lung.
Parks, Peggy J. Jonas Salk: Polio Vaccine Pioneer. San Diego: Blackbirch, 2004. Print.
i used Jonas Salk-Polio Vaccine Pioneer to learn about the scientist who created the life saving vaccine.
Shell, Marc. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2005. Print.
I used Polio and its aftermath to learn about living with polio first hand.
Wilson, Daniel J. Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2005. Print.
I used living with polio: The epidemic and its survivors to experience what life was like living with polio from the opinions of many different survivors ,and how the vaccine changed that.
Cutter Incident — History of Vaccines." History of Vaccines — A Vaccine History Project of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2012. Web. 30 Sept. 2012. This site helped me with creating my timeline.
"Feature Story: More Than a March of Dimes: New Fund-raising Tactics, Intense Research Rivalry Spurred Polio Cure, Historian Says." Home | The University of Texas at Austin. 27 June 2005. Web. 30 Sept 2012. This site helped me understand the obstacles faced by polio victims.
"Infectious Disease - Vaccines & Human Immunity Page 6." Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences, 2012. Web. 29 Sept2012.
This site helped me understand the different types of polio.
"Jonas Salk." The Heroes Club - Home Page. 2011. Web. 29 Sept. 2012. This helped me learn about how much the vaccine changed people’s lives.
"Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Discovery Public Domain Newsreel PublicDomainFootage.com-YouTube." YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. This shows what a great man jonas salk was and how much he did for medical advances and peoples lives.
"NMAH | Polio: Two Vaccines." National Museum of American History. Web. 10 Oct 2012. This site helped me learn the differences between the Salk and Sabin vaccines.
"North Tower Panel Collection." Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives. Web. 21 Oct 2012. This site helped me learn about the methods used for treating polio patients.
Ajayi, Seun. "Top 10 Infectious Diseases." Infectious Diseases. N.p., 28 May 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://students.cis.uab.edu/sajayi11/FinalProject.html>.
This website provided me with lots of pictures of children suffering from polio and posters to help prevent polio.
Polio Oral Vaccine. 1963. Photograph. N.p. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This picture shows children receiving the oral polio vaccine and how the outcome was very positive.
Secondary Sources
AAP Press Room Photos." American Academy of Pediatrics. Web. 21 Oct 2012.This showed how much children in the 1950’s needed the vaccine.
"Albert B Sabin, M.D." Albert B. Sabin Archives. University of Cincinnati, 2000. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. This helped me with the information about Dr. Sabin. I learned about his vaccine and how it differs from Salk’s.
Becker, Larry. "Larry Becker . The Polio Crusade . WGBH American Experience | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1996-2010. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.This video helped me learn about how the polio vaccine has changed lives.
"Citations for Dr. Jonas E. Salk and The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for the Polio Vaccine." Welcome to ClassBrain.com. 2006. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. This site helped me understand the obstacles faced by polio victims.
French, Margaret. "Polio Summer." Margaret French, Stories. 22 Sept. 2011. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. I used this site helped me understand the different types of polio.
"Jonas Salk." The Heroes Club - Home Page. 2011. Web. 25 Oct. 2012.
"Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin | Chemical Heritage Foundation." Homepage of the Chemical Heritage Foundation | Chemical Heritage Foundation. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This site helped me learn about what life was like before the polio vaccine.
"Jonas Salk Photo Gallery." Academy of Achievement Main Menu. 1996-2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This site helped visualize what salk was doing and how he was helping thousands of children with his vaccine.
"Minnesota's Polio Hero." Science Buzz. Science Museum of Minnesota, 2004-2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This site helped me learn about the methods used for treating polio patients.
Offit, Paul A. "The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicene (2006): 240. US National Library of Medicene. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, Mar. 2006. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This site helped me learn about what life was like before the polio vaccine.
Palca, Joe. "Salk Polio Vaccine Conquered Terrifying Disease : NPR." NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR. NPR, 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. This site helped me with creating my timeline.
"Polio Vaccine and Immunization Information." National Network for Immunization Information (NNii). 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/polio>. This site helped me understand the different types of polio and how they effected the patients.
Rose, David. "Research Breakthroughs | March of Dimes." Pregnancy, Baby, Prematurity, Birth Defects | March of Dimes. March of Dimes Foundation, 20 Sept. 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2012.
This picture helped me learn that both salk and sabin created vaccines that did the same thing, but they each had a different way of doing it.
"Salk Institute - About Salk - About Jonas Salk." Salk Institute | Where Cures Begin. 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.salk.edu/about/jonas_salk.html>.
This site helped me learn about Jonas Salk and how he developed the vaccine.