Polio Wars : Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine /
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's 'other war at home': they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical com...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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