Polio Across the Iron Curtain, Vargha Dуra

Автор: Zaloga, Steven J. (author)
Название: Tanks at the iron curtain 1960-75
ISBN: 1472848160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472848161
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Описание: A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War. From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the advent of CBR (chemical, biological, radiological) protection and a move away from HEAT ammunition to APFSDS. This shift confronted the growing threat of guided anti-tank missiles and saw the introduction of composite armor.

Soviet heavy tanks and tank destroyer/assault guns became obsolete, giving way to the technological might of the T-62 and T-64, while NATO forces employed the Chieftain, AMX-30, Leopard I, and M60, plus the initial attempt at a common US-German tank, the MBT-70. Using detailed illustrations and contemporary photographs, this companion volume to NVG 301, Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946-60 focuses on key battle tanks and their technology to give a comprehensive overall picture of how tanks developed during modern times.

Автор: Zaloga, Steven J. (author)
Название: Tanks at the iron curtain 1946-60
ISBN: 1472843290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472843296
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Описание: A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed. For 45 years, the most disputed point in the World was the dividing line between East and West in Europe; here the use and development of tanks was key. In this fully illustrated study, author Steve Zaloga, describes how Soviet and NATO tanks were deployed in the early years of the Cold War, and how a generation of tanks such as the Soviet T-44/T-54 and IS-3, British Centurion, US Army M26/M46 Pershing (all developed during World War II) saw extensive service after the war had ended.

Initial post-war generation tanks including the Soviet T-54A, T-10 heavy tank, British late-model Centurions, Conqueror, US Army M41, M47, M48 and the French AMX-13 are examined in detail alongside the most important technical trends of the era: the development of shaped-charge anti-tank projectiles, the influence of anti-tank missiles, and the introduction of chemical/nuclear protection and night fighting equipment. The book also considers the influence of post-war doctrine and tactics on tank technology and the effect of regional conflicts such as the 1950 Korean War, the war in Indo-China, and the 1956 Mid East War on tank warfare.

Автор: Kramer Mark
Название: Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain
ISBN: 0739181858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739181850
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Описание: Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain, edited by Mark Kramer and Vit Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain.

Автор: Kirchhof Astrid Mignon, McNeill John R.
Название: Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990
ISBN: 0822945452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822945451
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Описание: A Political and Comparative History of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the Communist and Capitalist Worlds During the Cold War Years

Автор: Oshinsky, David M.
Название: Polio
ISBN: 0195307143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195307146
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Presents a portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on our national obsessions and fears. Drawing on the papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, this book paints a portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin.

Название: Polio
ISBN: 1580460666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580460668
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: A history of polio - infantile paralysis - from the point of view of scientists, patients and health workers. The account includes the story of the search for an effective vaccine and the ensuing public health campaigns which have largely eradicated this disease from the Western world.

Автор: Rogers Naomi
Название: Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
ISBN: 0195380592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195380590
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Описание: A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.

Автор: Hyde Byron S.
Название: The Return of Polio to the USA
ISBN: 1989442099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781989442098
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Автор: Shell, Marc
Название: Polio and its aftermath
ISBN: 0674013158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674013155
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Описание: In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell`s work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic.

Автор: Kerry Highley
Название: Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio
ISBN: 1922235849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922235848
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Описание: Across most of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the specter of polio, but, for 50 years during the 20th century, that fear was overwhelming. Polio rapidly became every parent's worst nightmare. Epidemics arrived silently, often with symptoms that could easily be mistaken for a common cold, and dreadful suddenness. Those who were fortunate enough to survive infection often faced an unfriendly and unhelpful world. Appropriate treatments for polio survivors were fiercely debated. In pre-World War II Australia, two women symbolized a dramatic rift between the medical community's orthodoxy and those who advocated alternative therapy. In Victoria, Dr. Jean Macnamara used splints, plaster casts, and braces for treatments. Sister Elizabeth Kenny - in her clinic in Townsville and later in the US - championed and practiced an alternative approach of little or no form of constraint for the paralyzed body, advocating gentle exercise of muscles in the early acute stage of the disease, along with hot packs to relieve pain, spasms, and muscle tightness. By the 1950s, most Western countries had abandoned the orthodoxy of immobilizing polio survivors in plaster casts for months on end. In Australia, where the medical establishment was largely unquestioned, this treatment was to remain dominant until the 1960s. Dancing in My Dreams investigates the disease of polio and its treatment over a long period, the scientific endeavor that led to the discovery of the polio virus, and the early studies in virology and immunology that culminated in the production of a polio vaccine. As the frequency of polio epidemics have declined, so has the collective memory of the experience of the disease. But, there is no cure. The growth of anti-vaccine sentiment in many societies is a complicated issue, but, as this book ends by noting, the success of a vaccination program depends on the cooperation of individuals. As long as a single child remains infected with polio, all unvaccinated children throughout the world will be at risk. *** Kerry Highley's often harrowing account is thoroughly researched and well-written. Part medical history part social history, this book should find a broad readership among those who enjoy quality Australian nonfiction. Dancing in My Dreams should be required reading for the anti-vaccination crowd. -- Dave Martus, Books+Publishing (Series: Australian History) [Subject: Medical History, Australian Studies, Virology]

Автор: Oshinsky, David
Название: Polio
ISBN: 0195152948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195152944
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Описание: The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense-and intensely bitter-competition to find the first vaccine.

Автор: Mawdsley Stephen E.
Название: Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
ISBN: 0813574390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813574394
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Описание: Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using healthy children-55,000 healthy children-revealing how this long-forgotten incident cleared the path for Salk’s later trial. Mawdsley describes how, in the early 1950s, Dr. William 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 assessed the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, gamma globulin, to prevent paralytic polio. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals as it harbored potential health risks, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. And though the trial returned dubious results, it was presented to the public as a triumph and used to justify a federally sanctioned mass immunization study on thousands of families between 1953 and 1954. Indeed, the concept, conduct, and outcome of the GG study were sold to health professionals, medical researchers, and the public at each stage. At a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception. Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Selling Science sheds light on the ethics of scientific conduct, and on the power of marketing to shape public opinion about medical experimentation.