Author : Naomi Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195380592
A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
Author : Dóra Vargha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108368964
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, specimens, vaccines and iron lungs crossed over the Iron Curtain. Dóra Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. She argues that despite the antagonistic international atmosphere of the 1950s, spaces of transnational corporation between blocs emerged to tackle a common health crisis. At the same time, she shows that epidemic concepts and policies were influenced by the very Cold War rhetoric that medical and political cooperation transcended. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Naomi Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199701466
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- "Sister" being a reference to her status as a senior nurse, not a religious designation -- who arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of polio. Kenny approached the disease as a non-neurological affliction, championing such novel therapies as hot packs and muscle exercises in place of splinting, surgery, and immobilization. Her care embodied a different style of clinical practice, one of optimistic, patient-centered treatments that gave hope to desperate patients and families. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade, including the endorsement of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (today's March of Dimes), America's largest disease philanthropy. By 1952, a Gallup Poll identified Sister Kenny as most admired woman in America, and she went on to serve as an expert witness at Congressional hearings on scientific research, a foundation director, and the subject of a Hollywood film. Kenny breached professional and social mores, crafting a public persona that blended Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie. By the 1980s, following the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines and the March of Dimes' withdrawal from polio research, most Americans had forgotten polio, its therapies, and Sister Kenny. In examining this historical arc and the public's process of forgetting, Naomi Rogers presents Kenny as someone worth remembering. Polio Wars recalls both the passion and the practices of clinical care and explores them in their own terms.
Author : Stephanie True Peters
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761416357
Discusses the cause of polio and the infection process, its history and search for a cure, and the course it took in the United States between 1900 and the early 1960s.
Author : Cynthia O'Brien
Publisher : Wars Waged Under the Microscop
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781427151391
Polio plagued humans for thousands of years with no cure and few effective treatments. This informative book describes how there was no real understanding of what it was until scientists were able to do research on the disease using microscopes. It was not until 1961 that a vaccine was developed. Since then, polio has been eradicated in most of the world.
Author : Juliette Haines Mofford
Publisher : TouchPoint Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
1940s. World War II is raging. Facing what seems to be insurmountable odds, a nine-year must draw upon weapons of inner strength to win her own war. The Second World War is raging overseas when nine-year old Carey Lindsay, has her own war to win. It was a time when children proudly participated in the War Effort and the fear of polio gripped every American community. References to American popular culture during the 1940s bring back a bygone era. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt provided courage and inspiration for Carey and her new friends. Like young people today, coping with isolation during Covid-19, Carey must draw upon weapons of inner strength. Carey's story will resonate with young readers and adults experiencing medical challenges and readers whose families have been impacted by war. This poignant story does not shy away from sadness and death but is also filled with the love of family and joys of friendship, along with personal victory. "For any young reader faced with illness, either their own or that of a family member or friend, this is an important story. It is also a memorable and heartwarming book for those of us who remember the fear of polio during the epidemics of the 1940s and early 'fifties and the courage of an American President, who crippled by the disease himself, inspired other victims." —Reader Review (First Edition)
Author : Mary Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781503033863
The author's father came down with polio during the epidemic of 1944. This book describes his story of pain, rehabilitation and return to normality as well as inspirational stories of other polio survivors, some more severely paralyzed than he was. Most of these people adjusted well to life after polio. But 30 to 40 years later they started getting what is known as post-polio syndrome which the author's father had also. Also included is a concise but comprehensive history of polio in 20th century America. In 1916, the crippling disease began in New York City and spread to other parts of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt's county was especially hard hit with a 25% mortality rate. He formed a group of prominent citizens from his town of Oyster Bay and tried to prevent the disease from spreading. Nothing worked. In 1921 his distant cousin Franklin got polio and lost the use of both of his legs. He also was weak in his pelvic area and unable to walk more than a few steps on crutches. He founded a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. By 1926 he realized that he was never going to walk again but felt he could still run for office. In 1928 he ran for Governor of New York and served two terms. In 1933 he became President of the United States. While President he asked his law partner, Basil O'Connor, to head up a charity which provided for patient care and research into the disease. All patients needing money for hospital expenses were cared for. It was the most successful charity ever. It eliminated the need for government involvement. After World War II, people began to clamor for a vaccine to prevent polio in the new generation of baby boomers. Enter Jonas Salk. By using his intelligence, great leadership skills and hard tedious work he was able to test his vaccine in 1952. In 1954 the vaccine was tested on millions of first, second and third grade children and was found to be safe and effective. In 1962 Salk's vaccine was replaced with Sabin's oral vaccine but that was found to cause polio in a few people. In 2000 the United States went back to the Salk vaccine. The Sabin vaccine is used for the developing world because of inability to afford expensive needles and because immunity can be spread by vaccinated people to the unvaccinated.
Author : Thomas Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1787380874
In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
Author : Jean Gould
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1839740418
A Good Fight, first published in 1960, is the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the onset of his polio at Campobello, New Brunswick, to his death at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945. Author Jean Gould's contention is that difficult as were his political battles, so much more arduous were his victories over his physical impediments. Here, in a view rarely given of F.D.R., is a moving account of his struggles and the agonizing exercises he endured which allowed him to function effectively on the campaign trail, in office, and in the critical years of the Great Depression and the Second World War.
Author : Naomi Rogers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9780199369188
This title provides a study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. The book presents a case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
