Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Description: xxxi, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195380590
  • 0195380592
  • 9780199701469
  • 0199701466
  • 9780199334131
  • 0199334137
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 614.5/49 23
LOC classification:
  • RA644.P9 R644 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2014 A-448
  • WZ 100
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 polio. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade. Rogers presents both the passion and the practices of clinical care and explores them in their own terms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 polio. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade. Rogers presents both the passion and the practices of clinical care and explores them in their own terms.

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