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The polio years in Texas : battling a terrifying unknown / Heather Green Wooten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wooten, Heather Green, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poliomyelitis--Texas--History--20th century.
- Poliomyelitis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station [Tex.] : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Polio Years in Texas, Heather Green Wooten draws on extensive archival research as well as interviews conducted over a five-year period with Texas polio survivors and their families. This is a detailed and intensely human account of not only the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years, but also of the continuing aftermath of the disease for those who are still living with its effects.
- Contents:
- The dawn of a crippling threat
- The Lone Star legacy : polio, Texas politics, and FDR
- Battling a terrifying unknown
- Giving the boot to polio
- Red bricks, white coats, and iron lungs
- Silencing the killer
- A story yet to finish.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-357-6
- 1-299-05353-X
- OCLC:
- 715188311
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