04538nam 2200781Ia 450 991097075120332120200520144314.09786611966836978128196683412819668359780226901060022690106810.7208/9780226901060(CKB)1000000000578445(EBL)432314(OCoLC)309871323(SSID)ssj0000301917(PQKBManifestationID)12132180(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301917(PQKBWorkID)10266037(PQKB)10029405(SSID)ssj0000193623(PQKBManifestationID)11182904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193623(PQKBWorkID)10219889(PQKB)11121414(MiAaPQ)EBC432314(DE-B1597)523580(OCoLC)1135615386(DE-B1597)9780226901060(Au-PeEL)EBL432314(CaPaEBR)ebr10266041(CaONFJC)MIL196683(Perlego)1834283(EXLCZ)99100000000057844520041013d2005 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrLiving with polio the epidemic and its survivors /Daniel J. Wilson1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Pressc20051 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226901046 0226901041 9780226901039 0226901033 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. "I'm Afraid It's Polio" --3. The Crisis of Acute Poliomyelitis --4. Covenants of Work: Recovery and the Rehabilitation Hospital --5. Straws on the Ceiling: Life on the Polio Wards --6. Going Home to a Long Recovery --7. Resuming Life after Polio --8. Living with Polio --9. An Old Foe Returns: Post-Polio Syndrome --10. Epilogue --Notes --IndexPolio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940's and 1950's, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They warned their children not to drink from public fountains, to avoid swimming pools, and to stay away from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the men and women who had acute polio and lived with its crippling consequences. Writing from personal experience, polio survivor Daniel J. Wilson shapes this impassioned book with the testimonials of more than one hundred polio victims, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960. He traces the entire life experience of the survivors-from the alarming diagnosis all the way to the recent development of post-polio syndrome, a condition in which the symptoms of the disease may return two or three decades after they originally surfaced. Living with Polio follows every physical and emotional stage of the disease: the loneliness of long separations from family and friends suffered by hospitalized victims; the rehabilitation facilities where survivors spent a full year or more painfully trying to regain the use of their paralyzed muscles; and then the return home, where they were faced with readjusting to school or work with the aid of braces, crutches, or wheelchairs while their families faced the difficult responsibilities of caring for and supporting a child or spouse with a disability. Poignant and gripping, Living with Polio is a compelling history of the enduring physical and psychological experience of polio straight from the rarely heard voices of its survivors.PoliomyelitisPopular worksPostpoliomyelitis syndromePopular worksPoliomyelitisPostpoliomyelitis syndrome362.19691800973616.8/35616.835Wilson Daniel J.1949-775130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970751203321Living with polio4357128UNINA