Description |
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- "I'm afraid it's polio" -- The crisis of acute poliomyelitis -- Covenants of work: recovery and the rehabilitation hospital -- Straws on the ceiling: life on the polio wards -- Going home to a long recovery -- Resuming life after polio -- Living with polio -- An old foe returns: post-polio syndrome -- Epilogue. |
Summary |
Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940s and 1950s, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They warned their children not to drink from public fountains, to avoid swimming pools, and to stay away from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the m. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Poliomyelitis -- Popular works.
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Poliomyelitis. |
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Popular works.
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Subject |
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome -- Popular works.
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Postpoliomyelitis syndrome. |
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Poliomyelitis. |
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Survivors. |
Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Daniel J., 1949- Living with polio. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 0226901033 9780226901039 (DLC) 2004024170 (OCoLC)56753118 |
ISBN |
9780226901060 (electronic book) |
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0226901068 (electronic book) |
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9780226901046 |
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