Living with polio : the epidemic and its survivors /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wilson, Daniel J., 1949-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Sujets:
Poliomyelitis > Popular works.
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome > Popular works.
Poliomyelitis.
Poliomyelitis
Survivors > psychology
Poliomyélite > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Syndrome post-poliomyélitique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Poliomyélite.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Alzheimer's & Dementia.
MEDICAL > Neurology.
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome
Postpoliosyndroom.
Ervaring.
Verenigde Staten.
Popular Work
Popular works
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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