Publications from the March of Dimes Archives, 2001-2015
Authors of the books, articles, films, exhibits, and dissertations listed here have
utilized the March of Dimes Archives in their research and/or have licensed photos
or films from our collections. This bibliography lists the most notable publications
and productions of the past fourteen years arising wholly or in part from research
in the March of Dimes Archives.
Book Publications
Allen, Arthur Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver (2007) Norton.
Altenbaugh, Richard The Last Children’s Plague: Poliomyelitis, Disability, and TwentiethCentury American Culture (2015) Palgrave Macmillan [forthcoming 2015]
Auster, Paul Report from the Interior (2013) Henry Holt.
Bourgeois, Suzanne Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of its Founders (2013) University of
California Press.
Chappell, Edith Powell and John F. Hume A Black Oasis: Tuskegee Institute’s Fight Against
Infantile Paralysis, 1941-1975 (2008; rev. ed.) Edith Powell.
Cook, Sarah Gibbard Rotary and the Gift of a Polio-Free World (2013) Rotary International.
Creager, Angela N. H. The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model,
1930-1965 (2002) University of Chicago.
Fairchild, Amy F; Ronald Bayer; James Colgrove Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and
Disease Surveillance in America (2007) University of California.
Foertsch, Jacqueline Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America
(2008) Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Gardner, Deborah S. Roosevelt House at Hunter College: The Story of Franklin & Eleanor’s
New York City Home (2009) The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History.
Harry Winston 80th Anniversary Brand Book (2012) Rizzoli.
Jackson, Stevan A Summer Without Children: An Oral History of Wythe County, Virginia’s 1950
Polio Epidemic (2005) Wytheville Department of Museums.
Jacobs, Charlotte Jonas Salk: A Life (2015) Oxford University Press [forthcoming 2015]
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Kluger, Jeffrey Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005) Penguin.
Levy, Chava Willig A Life Not With Standing (2013) CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
Medicine at Yale: The First 200 Years (2010) Yale School of Medicine.
Mawdsley, Stephen Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin (2015) Rutgers
University Press [forthcoming 2015]
Minchew, Kate A President in Our Midst: FDR in Georgia (2015) University of Georgia Press
[forthcoming 2015]
Moeschen, Sheila C. Acts of Conspicuous Compassion: Performance Culture and American
Charity Practices (2013) University of Michigan.
Nichols, Jan Twin Voices: A Memoir of Polio, the Forgotten Killer (2007) iUniverse.
Offit, Paul A. The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing
Vaccine Crisis (2005) Yale University.
Offit, Paul A. Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (2007)
Smithsonian Books.
Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story (2005) Oxford University.
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Winner, Pulitzer Prize in History, 2006.
Pioneering Medicine: History of New York University’s Langone Medical Center (2011) NYU.
Prendergast, Mark Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic
Intelligence Service (2010) Houghton Mifflin.
Reagan, Leslie Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
(2010) University of California.
Rhodes, John The End of Plagues: The Global Battle against Infectious Disease (2013) Palgrave
Macmillan.
Rogers, Naomi Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine (2013)
Oxford.
Rose, David March of Dimes (2003) Arcadia Images of America Series.
Roth, Andreas The Ultimate Elvis in Munich Book (2004) Andreas Roth.
Serotte, Brenda The Fortune Teller’s Kiss (2006) University of Nebraska.
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Shell, Marc Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture (2005) Harvard University.
Skinner, Georja The Christmas House: How One Man’s Dream Changed the Way We Celebrate
Christmas (2005) New World Library.
Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) Crown / Random House.
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Finalist, Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2010; Finalist, Excellence in Science Books, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010.
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Translated into 13 foreign editions: Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish, Swedish
Tiffany, John A. Eleanor Lambert: Still Here (2011) Pointed Leaf Press.
Tobin, James The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency (2013) Simon
& Schuster.
Wijdicks, Eelco F. M. Neurocinema: When Film Meets Neurology (2014) CRC Press.
Williams, Gareth Paralyzed with Fear: The Story of Polio (2013) Palgrave Macmillan.
Wilson, Daniel J. Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors (2005) Univ of Chicago.
Wilson, Daniel J. Polio: A Biography (2009) Greenwood Press.
Wooten, Heather The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown (2009) Texas A&M.
Zarcadoolas, Christina; Andrew F. Pleasant, and David S. Greer Advancing Health Literacy: A
Framework for Understanding and Action (2006) Jossey-Bass.
Published Articles
Altenbaugh, Richard “Where are the Disabled in the History of Education? The Impact of Polio
on Sites of Learning” (2006) History of Education, 35(6):705-730.
Baghdady, Georgette and Joanne M. Maddock “Marching to a Different Mission” Spring 2008,
Stanford Social Innovation Review, pp. 59-65.
Codr, Dwight “Arresting Monstrosity: Polio, Frankenstein, and the Horror Film,” Publications
of the Modern Language Association, March 2014; 129(2): 171-87.
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Creager, Angela “Mobilizing Biomedicine: Virus Research between Lay Health Organizations
and the United States Federal Government, 1935-1955” in Caroline Hannaway, Biomedicine in
the 20th Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics (2008) IOS Press, pp. 171-201.
Garland-Thompson, Rosemarie “Disability and Representation” March 2005, Publications of the
Modern Language Association of America, 120(2): 522-27.
Hawke, Caitlin "Influenza and Influence: Behind the Scenes with Salk and Sabin in 1976"
[forthcoming, 2015]
Hogan, Andrew “Locating Genetic Disease: The impact of clinical nosology on biomedical
conceptions of the human genome (1966-1990)” (2013) New Genetics and Society, 32(1):78-96.
Hogan, Andrew “The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Genome” Medical History [forthcoming
2014].
Kirkpatrick, Bill and Ann Nekola “Cultural Policy in American Music History: Sammy Davis,
Jr., vs. Juvenile Delinquency” (2010) Journal of the Society of American Music, 4(1):33-58.
Mawdsley, Stephen E. “‘Dancing on Eggs:’ Charles H. Bynum, Racial Politics, and the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1938-1954” (2010) Bulletin History of Medicine, 84: 217-47.
Mawdsley, Stephen E. “Balancing Risks: Childhood Inoculations and America’s Response to the
Provocation of Paralytic Polio” (2013) Social History of Medicine.
Mitman, Gregg “The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White America” in
David Serlin Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (2009) Univ of Minnesota.
Pederson, Thoru “Turning on a Dime: The 75th Anniversary of America’s March against Polio”
July 2013, The FASEB Journal, 27:2533-55.
Rogers, Naomi “Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of
Dimes” May 2007, American Journal of Public Health, 97:784-95.
Rogers, Naomi “Polio Chronicles: Warm Springs and Disability Politics in the 1930s” (2009),
Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 61(1):143-74.
Rose, David W. “Robert A. Good, the March of Dimes, and Immunodeficiency: An Historical
Perspective” (2007) Immunological Research, 38(1-3):51-54.
Stoddard-Holmes, Martha “Crippling Colin: Disability in Two Film Versions of The Secret
Garden” in Jackie Horne and Joe Sanders, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden: A
Children’s Classic at 100 (2011) Scarecrow Press.
Wilson, Daniel J. “And They Shall Walk: Ideal versus Reality in Polio Rehabilitation in the
United States” (2009) Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 61(1):175-92
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Wilson, Daniel J. “Psychological Trauma and Its Treatment in the Polio Epidemics” (2008)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82:848-77.
Wilson, Daniel J. “Basil O’Connor, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and the
Reorganization of Polio Research in the United States, 1935-1941” (2014) Journal of the History
of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Film Productions
Becker, Sarah and Monica Nelson March of Dimes: Innovating American Fund-raising One
Dime at a Time (2010) National History Day Junior Group Performance.
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National History Day contestants: Fifth place in national NHD finals; Second place in
Minnesota NHD state finals; Outstanding State Award at National History Day, 2010.
Buirski, Nancy Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq (2013) Augusta Films.
Burns, Ken Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015) Florentine Films.
Burns, Ken The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) Florentine Films.
Colt, Sarah The Polio Crusade (2009) PBS American Experience.
Estrup, Liv Flying without Wings: Life with Arnold Beisser (2010) Liv Estrup.
Greidanus, Tjardus The Shot Felt ‘Round the World (2010) Steeltown Entertainment Project.
Neudel, Eric and Alison Gilkey Lives Worth Living (2011) Independent Lens.
Wohlers, Chris et al The Shot that Saved the World (2013) Smithsonian Network.
Books for Children and Young Adults
Davis, Susan T. One Step from Normal (2015) Pyramid Publishing.
Harrar, George The Wonder Kid (2006) Houghton Mifflin.
Hostetter, Joyce Moyer Blue (2005) Calkins Creek Books.
Hostetter, Joyce Moyer Comfort (2009) Calkins Creek Books.
Kehret, Peg Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (2006, 2nd edition) Albert Whitman & Co.
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Moran, Jeanne Risking Exposure (2013) Jeanne Moran.
Exhibits
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, The History of Vaccines (2009)
David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Health Is a Human Right (2013)
Indiana Historical Society, You Are There 1955: Ending Polio (2011)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Charles James: Beyond Fashion (2014)
National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) What Ever Happened to Polio? (2005)
NYU School of Medicine, Polio: Confronting an Epidemic (2014)
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Supported the Fifth Annual Innovations in Healthcare Symposium, NYU Langone Medical
Center, a leading event of the Jonas Salk Centennial commemorated by the Jonas Salk
Legacy Foundation and the March of Dimes.
Academic Theses and Dissertations
Hogan, Andrew Joseph “Chromosomes in the Clinic: The Visual Localization and Analysis of
Genetic Disease in the Human Genome” (2013) Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania,
History and Sociology of Science.
Knapp, Katherine “Too Small, Too Soon: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy and Neonatology in the
1960s” (2007) Senior thesis, Yale University.
Matysiak, Angela “Albert B. Sabin: The Development of an Oral Vaccine against Poliomyelitis”
(2005) Ph. D. dissertation, George Washington University.
Mawdsley, Stephen E. “Harnessing the Power of People: The Fundraising Efforts of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1938-1945” (2006) Undergraduate Honours thesis, University
of Alberta.
Mawdsley, Stephen E. “Polio and Prejudice: Charles Hudson Bynum and the Racial Politics of
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1938-1954” (2008) Masters Thesis, University of
Alberta.
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Winner, Richard Shryock Award, American Association for the History of Medicine, 2008.
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Mawdsley, Stephen E. “Fighting Polio: Selling the Gamma Globulin Field Trials, 1950-1953”
(2011) Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge.
Moeschen, Sheila C. “Benevolent Actors and Charitable ‘Objects’: Physical Disability and the
Theatricality of Charity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America” (2005) Ph.D.
dissertation, Northwestern University.
Morris, Hallie “Appealing to a Nation: The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its
Campaign against Polio” (2010) Princeton University.
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Awarded Princeton University’s Horace H. Wilson Senior Thesis Prize, 2010.
Scheffler, Robin Wolfe “Cancer Viruses and the Construction of Biomedicine in the United
States from 1900 to 1980” (2014) Ph. D. dissertation; Yale University, Program in the History of
Science and Medicine.
Wooten, Heather Green “The Polio Years in Harris and Galveston Counties, 1930-1962” (2006)
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas Medical School.
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