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BL
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1001804
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b756174
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| Main Entry
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Wilson, Daniel J.,1949-
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| Title & Author
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Polio /\ Daniel J. Wilson.
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| Publication Statement
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Biographies of disease series
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1 online resource (x, 171 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0313358982
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: 1282341480
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: 9780313358982
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: 9781282341487
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0313358974
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9780313358975
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and index.
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| Contents
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Poliomyelitis and the poliovirus -- Early evidence of polio and the first epidemics -- Science, medicine, and the search for a cure -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, polio, and warm springs -- Scientific research and the first human vaccine trials -- The March of Dimes and the campaign against polio -- Summers of fear : acute polio -- Convalescent polio and rehabilitation -- The search for a polio vaccine -- The polio vaccines of Salk and Sabin -- Living with polio -- The campaign to eradicate polio.
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"This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio in West Africa and South Asia and eliminate it entirely. Beyond the science, Polio looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it. It also describes how the search for answers to polio led to the rise of one of America's premier medical charities-- the March of Dimes-- and how modern physical therapy practices emerged alongside the polio epidemics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher.
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Poliomyelitis, Popular works.
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Coping with illness specific conditions.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- Alzheimer's Dementia.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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Infectious contagious diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Neurology.
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Medicine nursing.
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Neurology clinical neurophysiology.
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Poliomyelitis.
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Poliomyelitis-- history.
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Poliovirus Vaccines-- history.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.8/35
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| LC Classification
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RC180.2.W473 2009eb
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WC 555W747p 2009eb
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