عنوان

Polio /

(Number (ISBN

0313358982

(Number (ISBN

1282341480

(Number (ISBN

9780313358982

(Number (ISBN

9781282341487

Erroneous ISBN

0313358974

Erroneous ISBN

9780313358975

Number

b756174

Title Proper

Polio /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Daniel J. Wilson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Santa Barbara, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 171 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Biographies of disease series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and index.

Text of Note

Poliomyelitis and the poliovirus -- Early evidence of polio and the first epidemics -- Science, medicine, and the search for a cure -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, polio, and warm springs -- Scientific research and the first human vaccine trials -- The March of Dimes and the campaign against polio -- Summers of fear : acute polio -- Convalescent polio and rehabilitation -- The search for a polio vaccine -- The polio vaccines of Salk and Sabin -- Living with polio -- The campaign to eradicate polio.

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Text of Note

"This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio in West Africa and South Asia and eliminate it entirely. Beyond the science, Polio looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it. It also describes how the search for answers to polio led to the rise of one of America's premier medical charities-- the March of Dimes-- and how modern physical therapy practices emerged alongside the polio epidemics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher.

Title

Polio.

International Standard Book Number

9780313358975

Poliomyelitis, Popular works.

Poliomyelitis-- history.

Poliovirus Vaccines-- history.

Coping with illness & specific conditions.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- Alzheimer's & Dementia.

Health and Wellbeing.

Infectious & contagious diseases.

MEDICAL-- Neurology.

Medicine & nursing.

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology.

Poliomyelitis.

HEA

HEA-- 039140

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MED-- 056000

MJCJ

MKJ

VFJB

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Book Number

Wilson, Daniel J.,1949-

Date of Transaction

20201204162529.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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