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In The Shadow Of Polio: A Personal And Social History

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An anecdotal, personal account of the dramatic have an effect on of the polio epidemic on 1940s and 1950s The usa from a social and historical context specializes in the writer’s own mother’s illness and the emotional devastation that it brought on her own circle of relatives.
A memoir of her mother’s horrifying descent into an iron lung–and into the grave two years later–this powerful, heart-wrenching book could also be a well-researched and vivid account of the onset of the polio epidemics of the turn of the century and the conquering of the disease in the 1950s. Virginia Black, the writer’s mother, reduced in size both bulbar and spinal polio just weeks after the first American children had been inoculated with Jonas Salk’s controversial vaccine. Virginia Black did not live to tell the tale, but her daughter, six years old when her mother died, grew as much as write the most important first-hand account of this frightening crippler.

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