Polio and its aftermath : the paralysis of culture /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shell, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis > Social aspects > United States.
Poliomyelitis > Patients > Biography.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Poliomyelitis > history
Disabled Persons > history
History, 20th Century
Motion Pictures as Topic > history
Poliomyelitis > psychology
Socioeconomic Factors
Poliomyélite > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Poliomyélite > Patients > Biographies.
Personnes handicapées au cinéma.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Alzheimer's & Dementia.
MEDICAL > Neurology.
MEDICAL > History.
People with disabilities in motion pictures
Poliomyelitis > Patients
United States
Personal Narrative
Biography
Personal narratives
Biographies
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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