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The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready

The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

Forrest Maready

285 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction health history informative slow-paced
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease—polio— told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to exp...

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