![]() ![]() ![]() Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor –often the only woman in the room-she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. women have always been in science-despite those who would pretend otherwise.” -Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry She gave up everything - and changed the world. ![]()
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