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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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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.8/35 |
Soggetto topico: | Poliomyelitis - Social aspects - United States |
Poliomyelitis - Patients | |
People with disabilities in motion pictures | |
Culture in motion pictures | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-295) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Polio and its aftermath ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-674-04354-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778182103321 |
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