Polio and its aftermath : the paralysis of culture / / Marc Shell

• Autore: Shell Marc
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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: 9780674043541; 0674043545
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958855303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II