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Polio and its aftermath : the paralysis of culture /

In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shell, Marc (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Autobiographies of a disease
  • One polio story
  • In the family
  • A polio school
  • Stasis and kinesis
  • Paralytic polio and moving pictures
  • Handi-capitalism and cinema business
  • The cast of Rear Window; or, cinema and akinesia
  • Politics
  • Polio and the great wars
  • Remembering Roosevelt
  • What we can learn, if we hurry.