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Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Naomi, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952.
- Kenny, Elizabeth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (556 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 community's enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- ""Sister"" being a reference to her status as a senior nurse, not a religious designation -- who arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousi
- Contents:
- A bush nurse in America
- The battle begins
- Changing clinical care
- Polio and disability politics
- The polio wars
- Celluloid
- Kenny goes to Washington
- Fading glory
- I knew Sister Kenny.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-933413-7
- 0-19-970146-6
- 0-19-538059-2
- OCLC:
- 865331919
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