Polio Voices

副标题: An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts (The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living)

ISBN: 9780275994921

出版社: Praeger Publishers

出版年: 2007-08-30

页数: 280

定价: USD 39.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Incorporating many rare photographs - most never made public before - from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories in this volume, Daniel Wilson and Julie Silver, M.D., help readers understand the terror that gripped America during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant. Interviewed as part of the Polio Oral History Project, the people featured in this book describe what was arguably the most feared scourge of modern times. Silver, Wilson, and their interviewees take us into families and through the years to understand polio's effect on families, the emergence of the polio and disability rights movement, the challenges of post-polio syndrome, and the state of polio research today.