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A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors, Gould, Tony, Used; Good Book

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EAN
9780300062922
ISBN
0300062923
Book Title
A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors
Item Height
241 mm
Author
Tony Gould
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
Medicine, History
Item Weight
900 g
Item Width
161 mm
Number of Pages
382 Pages

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This work is a comprehensive account of the poliomyelitis epidemic. It takes the story from the first major outbreak of Infantile Paralysis in New York in 1916 - which induced panic on a scale reminiscent of the great plagues of history - through to its lingering aftermath in the shape of the so-called, and still mysterious Post-Polio Syndrome. This account combines several strands - biographical, political and social - as well as clinical and microbiological. It focuses on those individuals who were influential in the treatment and conquest of polio - from the most celebrated polio sufferer of all, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who set up his own hydrotherapy centre at Warm Springs in Georgia - to the scientific rivals, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, caught up in the race to produce a viable vaccine. The story also features John Enders, the Nobel prizewinner who made the crucial breakthrough in the laboratory; FDR's lieutenant, Basil O'Connor, whose March of Dimes became a byword for successful fund-raising; and Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the nurse from the Australian outback who challenged medical orthodoxy and invented miracle cures. In Britain, despite ten years of increasingly severe outbreaks, it took the death from bulbar polio in 1959 of an international footballer, Jeff Hall, to etch the importance of polio prevention on people's minds. The second part of this book examines the experiences of polio survivors on both sides of the Atlantic and concludes with a moving autobiographical account of the disease and resulting disability.

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Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300062922
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
382 Pages
Publication Name
A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, History
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Author
Tony Gould
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
241 mm
Item Weight
900 g
Item Width
161 mm

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United States
Title_Author
Tony Gould

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