Monday, November 9, 2009
Microsoft founder Bill Gates praised Distinguished Teaching Professor of History David Oshinsky’s book “Polio: An American Story” (Oxford University Press, 2005) during a speech titled “Why We are Impatient Optimists” last month in Wash. D.C.
Highlighting Oshinsky’s historical account of the polio epidemic in America, Gates addressed the need for improvements in global health care and medical technologies. Watch the video segment.
Learn more about Oshinsky’s book in the feature “More Than a March of Dimes.”
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Tags: Bill Gates, College of Liberal Arts, David Oshinsky, Department of History, Polio, Polio: An American Story, Pulitzer Prize
By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts
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