Book ID: CBB001452081

Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine (2014)

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Rogers, Naomi (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xxxi + 456 pp.; ill.
Language: English

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of polio. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade. Rogers presents both the passion and the practices of clinical care and explores them in their own terms.

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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, Daniel J.
Murray, Susan
Powell, Edith
Chandler, Dana R.
Withey, Alun
Westmore, Ann
Concepts
Medicine
Poliomyelitis
Medical education and teaching
Authority of medicine
Societies; institutions; academies
Epidemics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Medieval
Places
United States
Australia
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Wales
Argentina
Europe
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
University of Melbourne
Tuskegee Institute
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