Article ID: CBB001211097

Polio in Italy (2012)

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Fantini, Bernardino (Author)


Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 32, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 329-360


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Policies, Social Responses and Associationist Movements against Poliomyelitis: The European Experience (1940--1975)”
Language: English

The history of polio in Italy is relatively short because the peculiar social and demographic history of the country has actually compressed the most dramatic history of the polio epidemic in only 40 years, from the first severe epidemic just before World War II to the early 1980s, when the epidemic vanished thanks to an effective and country-wide vaccination campaign. The epidemic, however, had a formidable impact on medicine, public health, social attitudes and culture. This case study can illustrate the impact of an epidemic of a severe disease on the individual and collective life, and at the same time the efficacy of public health measures against it, and the importance of the social structure, state and private, in coping with the consequences of the epidemics. In this period, the attitude towards the handicapped changed from stigma and isolation to social integration, thanks especially to the changes in health legislation, social action and the initiatives of the patient associations.

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Authors & Contributors
Iorio, Elena
Porras, María Isabel
Ballester, Rosa
Garofalo, Silvia
Paolo Neri
Oliva, Paolo Riccardo
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and society
Vaccines; vaccination
Poliomyelitis
Medicine
Epidemics
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Europe
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Québec (Canada)
United States
Sweden
Institutions
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Health Organization (WHO)
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