Author: Kathryn Black
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0201154900
In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
In 1954 Kathryn Black’s mother became one of the millions of people worldwide stricken with polio. Medical books In the Shadow of Polio. A year later, as the Salk vaccine became widely available, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and promptly buried its memories along with its dead.In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history. Black explores the lethal progression of her mother’s illness and its devastating emotional impact upon her family, interweaving her story with chapters that broaden into the social and historical context of the epidemic that randomly swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Rich with anecdotes from Black’s years of interviews and correspondence, In the Shadow of Polio is a journey into the homes and hospitals, the lives and memories of the people who lived through this period in our common past Medical books In The Shadow Of Polio A Personal And Social History. Hardcover book with dust jacket - No writing rip or torn pages IN THE SHADOW OF POLIO A Personal and Social History by Kathryn Black
A year later, as the Salk vaccine became widely available, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and promptly buried its memories along with its dead.In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history. Black explores the lethal progression of her mother’s illness and its devastating emotional impact upon her family, interweaving her story with chapters that broaden into the social and historical context of the epidemic that randomly swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Rich with anecdotes from Black’s years of interviews and correspondence, In the Shadow of Polio is a journey into the homes and hospitals, the lives and memories of the people who lived through this period in our common past.
A memoir of her mother's horrifying descent into an iron lung--and into the grave two years later--this powerful, heart-wrenching book is also a well-researched and vivid account of the onset of the polio epidemics of the turn of the century and the conquering of the disease in the 1950s. Virginia Black, the author's mother, contracted both bulbar and spinal polio just weeks after the first American children had been inoculated with Jonas Salk's controversial vaccine. Virginia Black did not survive, but her daughter, six years old when her mother died, grew up to write an important first-hand account of this frightening crippler.
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Hardcover book with dust jacket - No writing rip or torn pages IN THE SHADOW OF POLIO A Personal and Social History by Kathryn Black
In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History, by Kathryn Black. Hardcover, 1996. Perseus Books; 1st Edition. An anecdotal, personal account of the dramatic impact of the polio epidemic on 1940s and 1950s America from a social and historical context focuses on the author's own mother's illness and the emotional devastation that it brought on her own family.Kathryn Black provided a memoir of her mother's horrifying descent into an iron lung--and into the grave two years later--this power
payment | shipping rates | returns In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History Product Category :Books ISBN :0201407396 Title :In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History EAN :9780201407396 Authors :Black, Kathryn Binding :Hardcover Publisher :Perseus Books Publication Date :1996-06-01 Pages :307 Signed :False First Edition :False Dust Jacket :False List Price (MSRP) :23.00 Height :1.3000 inches Width :6.3000 inches Length :9.5000 inches Weight :1.3000 pounds Condition :Good
Title: In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History Author: Kathryn Black Hardcover.Very good condition. Dustjacket and cover have light wear. Stated first printing. Published in 1996 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.History, Medicine, Polio See similar listings in our eBay store. Shipping can be combined on multiple purchases. Payment is expected within 7 days of purchase. Visit My eBay Store: Bark'N Books
Medical Book In the Shadow of Polio
A year later, as the Salk vaccine became widely available, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and promptly buried its memories along with its dead.In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history. Black explores the lethal progression of her mother’s illness and its devastating emotional impact upon her family, interweaving her story with chapters that broaden into the social and historical context of the epidemic that randomly swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Rich with anecdotes from Black’s years of interviews and correspondence, In the Shadow of Polio is a journey into the homes and hospitals, the lives and memories of the people who lived through this period in our common past.
