TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Daniel J.
TI  - Living with polio: the epidemic and its survivors 
SN  - 9780226901060 (electronic bk.)
AV  - RC180.2 .W47 2005eb
U1  - 616.8/35 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Poliomyelitis
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Postpoliomyelitis syndrome
KW  - Popular Works
KW  - Survivors
KW  - psychology
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Alzheimer's & Dementia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Neurology
KW  - gtt
KW  - Postpoliosyndroom
KW  - Ervaring
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - პოლიომიელიტი
KW  - ნევროლოგია
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-288) and index; 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
N2  - 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 from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the m
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