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Title Polio's legacy : an oral history / [edited by] Edmund J. Sass with George Gottfried, Anthony Sorem ; foreword by Richard Owen
Published Lanham [Md.] : University Press of America, [1996]
©1996

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Description xviii, 278 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Polio: Its Definition, History and Late Effects -- Ch. 2. "She Carried Herself Like A Queen" / Robert Gurney, Richard Owen and Ray K. Gullickson -- Ch. 3. Of Iron Lungs and Wheelchairs / Marilynne Rogers and David Kangas -- Ch. 4. Under the Knife / Kay Brutger, Gail Bias and Barb Johnson -- Ch. 5. Scoliosis: The Abnormal Curve / Edmund Sass, Carole Sauer and Sharon Kimball -- Ch. 6. Braces, Crutches, and Canes / Len Jordan, Mary Ann Hoffman, Arvid Schwartz and Diane Keyser -- Ch. 7. Adult Polio / June Radosovich, Evelyn Fink and Jeanne Molloy -- Ch. 8. Old Timers / Jack Dominik, Charles A. Stone and Bill Van Cleve -- Ch. 9. Complete (or Almost Complete) Recovery / Millie Teders, Elaine Lodermeier, Marlene Krumrie, Stuart Goldschen and Barb Grile -- Ch. 10. Active Lives / Dorrie Getchell, Dale Jacobson, Jim O'Meara and Pat Zahler -- Ch. 11. Late Effects / James Berry, Rosemary Marx, Jennifer Williams, Grace Audet and Janice Johnson Gradin -- Ch. 12. Conclusions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-278)
Subject Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Poliomyelitis -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Gottfried, George.
Sass, Edmund J.
Sorem, Anthony.
LC no. 95045236
ISBN 076180143X (cloth : alk. paper)
0761801448 (paperback: alk. paper)