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Charlotte Jacobs on 'Jonas Salk: A Life'

Jonas Salk: A Life tells the story of the brilliant and complicated physician who discovered and developed the first vaccine for polio. Physician-author Charlotte Jacobs, MD, professor emerita of medicine at Stanford, spent the past decade digging through archives, conducting over a hundred interviews and reading countless first-hand accounts and period news to write her latest biography. 

 

Photo by Max Aguilera-Hellweg

Length: 36 mins. 15 sec.
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