Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine by Naomi Rogers

Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine

Naomi Rogers

456 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
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During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realiti...

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