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...serious men have attempted an answer. One is Jonas Salk. "When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine," he said of his early clinical tests, "you don't sleep well for two or three months." So Salk tested the vaccine on himself, his wife and his own children. This is an extraordinary response. It certainly could not have improved his sleep. It did not even solve the ethical dilemma. After all, the Salk children were put at risk, and they were no less innocent than the rest. But by involving his own kin (and himself), Salk arranged to suffer...
...hard to see a rational therapy based on oncagene research right now," says Tony Hunter of the Salk Cancer Research Institute in California. "If you're interested in curing cancer, working with oncagenes is a long road and many years away," he adds...
...They gathered to honor a self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who made the difference." In attendance were some of the issue's glittery contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman...
President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the State Department to transmit information on the Salk vaccine and its effectiveness to 75 nations through U.S. Ambassadors, and the World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. The six firms making the vaccine are selling it at cost to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, but will otherwise sell...
...what of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation itself, with its 250 headquarters personnel and 3,100 chapters spread all across the U.S.? Dr. Salk suggested that medical science should turn its biggest guns next on mental illness. To help science do this, an organization like the foundation would come in handy...