Beschreibung:
This book is the most comprehensive and compelling account of the century's polio epidemics yet written. Interweaving biographical, political, social, and medical history, Tony Gould -- a distinguished British writer and himself a polio survivor -- traces the rise and fall of the epidemic and describes the individuals who were influential in its treatment and conquest.
Part 1 The rise and fall of epidemic poliomyelitis: New York, 1916; F.D.R.; warm springs; polio crusaders; an angel abroad; a planned miracle; the quick and the dead; born too soon. Part 2 Lives of the polios: in England; in America; a civil wound - an autobiographical coda. Appendix: monkey business.