Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.
Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.
Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.
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New York : Oxford University Press, ©2014.
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G 2014/3141
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English
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Physical content
xxxi, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
pt. 1. A bush nurse in America ; The battle begins ; Changing clinical care -- pt. 2. Polio and disability politics ; The polio wars ; Celluloid -- pt. 3. Kenny goes to Washington ; Fading glory ; I knew Sister Kenny.
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2014.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
©2014.
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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...
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Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2014.
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G 2014/3141
Record Identifier
74VKvED3Q23M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvED3Q23M
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ISBN
0195380592 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780195380590 (hbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
614.549
MMS ID
991021574189702626
