Polio
By: Daniel J. Wilson.
Series: Biographies of disease series; Biographies of disease
Publisher: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780313358975; 9780313358982
Subjects: Poliomyelitis -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poliomyelitis and the poliovirus; title: Early evidence of polio and the first epidemics; title: Science, medicine, and the search for a cure; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt, polio, and warm springs; title: Scientific research and the first human vaccine trials; title: The March of Dimes and the campaign against polio; title: Summers of fear : acute polio; title: Convalescent polio and rehabilitation; title: The search for a polio vaccine; title: The polio vaccines of Salk and Sabin; title: Living with polio; title: The campaign to eradicate polio.