The polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine /

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of poli...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rogers, Naomi, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Kenny, Elizabeth, > 1886-1952.
Kenny, Elizabeth, > 1886-1952
Nurses > Australia > Biography.
Poliomyelitis > United States > History.
Nurses > United States > Biography.
Poliomyelitis > Australia > History.
Infirmières > Australie > Biographies.
Poliomyélite > États-Unis > Histoire.
Infirmières > États-Unis > Biographies.
Poliomyélite > Australie > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Nurses
Poliomyelitis
Australia
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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