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Author Shell, Marc.

Title Polio and its aftermath : the paralysis of culture / Marc Shell.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  616.835 Sh43p 2005    ---  Available
Description 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-295) and indexes.
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.
Subject Poliomyelitis -- Social aspects.
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Biography.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Poliomyelitis -- history -- United States.
Disabled Persons -- history -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States -- Personal Narratives.
Motion Pictures -- history -- United States.
Poliomyelitis -- psychology -- United States -- Personal Narratives.
Socioeconomic Factors -- United States -- Personal Narratives.
ISBN 0674013158
Standard No. NLM 101249319
NLGGC 269332731

 
    
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