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Autore |
Shell Marc |
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Titolo |
Polio and its aftermath [[electronic resource] ] : the paralysis of culture / / Marc Shell |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Poliomyelitis - Social aspects - United States |
Poliomyelitis - Patients |
People with disabilities in motion pictures |
Culture in motion pictures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-295) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: Autobiographies of a Disease -- 1. One Polio Story -- 2. In the Family -- 3. A Polio School -- II: Stasis and Kinesis -- 4. Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures -- 5. Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business -- 6. The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia -- III. Politics -- 7. Polio and the Great Wars -- 8. Remembering Roosevelt -- 9. What We Can Learn, If We Hurry -- Aftermath -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Text Credits -- Illustration Credits -- List of Boxes -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence. |
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