Polio
This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio in West Africa and South Asia and eliminate it entirely. Beyond the science, Polio looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it. It also describes how the search for answers to polio led to the rise of one of Americas premier medical charitiesthe March of Dimesand how modern physical therapy practices emerged alongside the polio epidemics of the 20th century. Title Features: A chronology of key events in the scientific, medical, and social history of polio; Rarely seen photographs from the archives of the March of Dimes, providing a visual history of treatments for the disease. - Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2009
Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif., ©2009
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x, 171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780313358975, 9780313358982, 0313358974, 0313358982
320194073
Poliomyelitis and the poliovirus
Early evidence of polio and the first epidemics
Science, medicine, and the search for a cure
Franklin D. Roosevelt, polio, and warm springs
Scientific research and the first human vaccine trials
The March of Dimes and the campaign against polio
Summers of fear : acute polio
Convalescent polio and rehabilitation
The search for a polio vaccine
The polio vaccines of Salk and Sabin
Living with polio
The campaign to eradicate polio