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Polio Voices - An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts (Hardcover)
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Polio Voices - An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts (Hardcover)
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Incorporating many rare photographs--most never made public
before--from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories
in this volume, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian
Daniel Wilson help readers understand the sheer terror that gripped
parents of young children every spring and summer during the first
half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant.
Interviewed as part of the Polio Oral History Project directed by
Silver and funded by Harvard, foundations, and private donors, the
people featured in this book describe what is arguably the most
feared scourge of modern times. Polio killed and maimed millions of
Americans. Silver, Wilson, and their interviewees take us into
homes and across time to understand the disease's effect on the
family and the community. Testimonies are included from people who
worked in polio wards, as well as from those involved in worldwide
eradication efforts. The book also addresses the emergence of the
polio and disability rights movement, the challenges of post-polio
syndrome, and the state of polio research and developments today.
And it explores the concern that polio could return in an even more
vicious form as a result of bioterrorism. This work will be of
interest to anyone intrigued by health and medical history;
infectious disease and other epidemics; the psychological effects
of disease on children, adults, and communities; politics in the
Roosevelt era; and bioterrorism.
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