Title Living with polio : the epidemic and its survivors / Daniel J. Wilson.

Publication Info.	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Poliomyelitis -- Popular works.
	Postpoliomyelitis syndrome -- Popular works.
	Poliomyelitis.
	Survivors.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
	MEDICAL -- Neurology.
	Poliomyelitis. (OCoLC)fst01068830
	Postpoliomyelitis syndrome. (OCoLC)fst01073219
	Poliomyelitis.
	Postpoliosyndroom.
	Ervaring.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Popular Works.
	Electronic books.
	Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
Other Form:	Print version: Wilson, Daniel J., 1949- Living with polio. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 0226901033 9780226901039 (DLC) 2004024170 (OCoLC)56753118
ISBN	9780226901060 (electronic bk.)
	0226901068 (electronic bk.)

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