Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine /
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of poli...
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Rogers, Naomi, 1958- |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014], ©2014
New York :
c2014
New York :
©2014
Oxford :
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New York :
[2014]
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