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The Polio Years in Texas - Battling a Terrifying Unknown (Paperback)
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The Polio Years in Texas - Battling a Terrifying Unknown (Paperback)
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The silent scourge that held a generation in fear . . . From the
1930s to the 1950s, paralytic poliomyelitis ("polio") threatened
the lives of children and adults in Texas, arousing the same kind
of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread
diseases. Harris County had the second-highest rate of infection in
the nation, and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast was particularly
hard-hit by this debilitating illness. At the time, though little
was known at first, the medical responses to polio changed the
medical landscape forever, giving rise to the development of
rehabilitative therapies, the modern intensive care unit, and a
wave of discoveries in virology that transformed the field. Polio
also had a sweeping cultural and societal effect. In addition to
engendering fearful responses from parents trying to keep children
safe from its ravages and an all-out public information blitz aimed
at helping a frightened population protect itself, polio exacted a
very real toll on the families, friends, healthcare resources, and
social fabric of those who contracted the disease and endured its
acute, convalescent, and rehabilitation phases. In The Polio Years
in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown, Heather Green Wooten draws
on extensive archival research as well as interviews conducted over
a five-year period with Texas polio survivors and their families.
The picture that emerges is a detailed and intensely human account,
not only of the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years,
but also of the continuing aftermath of the disease for those who
are still living with its effects. Interested general readers,
public health and medical professionals, and historians will derive
deep and lasting benefits from reading The Polio Years in Texas:
Battling a Terrifying Unknown. Heather Green Wooten earned her PhD
in medical humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch
at Galveston. She is an educator and independent historian living
in League City, Texas.
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