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Elegy for a disease : a personal and cultural history of polio

Finger, Anne2006
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In this memoir, Anne Finger explores the non-medical aspects of polio and reveals how it became an iconic disease because of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's experience. With the candour and skill of a novelist, she shows how having had polio has shapedher life, and in doing so provides a new paradigm of disability.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : St. Martin's, 2006.
Collation:
viii, 289 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780312347574 (hbk)031234757X
Dewey class:
362.1'96835362.1968
Language:
English
BRN:
209573
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