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Polio and its aftermath : the paralysis of culture /

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...

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Main Author: Shell, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis > Social aspects > United States.
Poliomyelitis > Patients > Biography.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Poliomyelitis > history
Persons with Disabilities > history.
History, 20th Century
Motion Pictures as Topic > history
Poliomyelitis > psychology
Socioeconomic Factors
United States
Personal Narrative
Biography
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780674043541
0674043545
9780674013155
0674013158
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Autobiographies of a disease
  • One polio story
  • In the family
  • A polio school
  • Stasis and kinesis
  • Paralytic polio and moving pictures
  • Handi-capitalism and cinema business
  • The cast of Rear Window; or, cinema and akinesia
  • Politics
  • Polio and the great wars
  • Remembering Roosevelt
  • What we can learn, if we hurry.

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