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Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR (Health & Medicine in American Society)
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"Will have an enthusiastic audience among historians of medicine who are familiar, for the most part, only with later twentieth-century efforts to combat polio." --Allan M. Brandt, University of North Carolina
Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within ... Read more
"Will have an enthusiastic audience among historians of medicine who are familiar, for the most part, only with later twentieth-century efforts to combat polio." --Allan M. Brandt, University of North Carolina
Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Health & medicine in American society
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813517865
SKU
V9780813517865
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About Rogers
NAOMI ROGERS is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.
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