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Author Wilson, Daniel J., 1949-

Title Living with polio : the epidemic and its survivors / Daniel J. Wilson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Poliomyelitis -- Popular works
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome -- Popular works
Poliomyelitis.
Poliomyelitis
Survivors -- psychology
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Poliomyelitis
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome
Poliomyelitis.
Postpoliosyndroom.
Ervaring.
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004024170
ISBN 9780226901060
0226901068
9780226901039
0226901033