TY - BOOK ID - 77873943 TI - Living with polio PY - 2005 SN - 1281966835 9786611966836 0226901068 9780226901060 9780226901046 9780226901039 0226901033 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Poliomyelitis KW - Postpoliomyelitis syndrome KW - Post-polio syndrome KW - Postpolio syndrome KW - Postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy KW - Muscular atrophy KW - Syndromes KW - Anterior spinal paralysis KW - Infantile paralysis KW - Paralysis, Anterior spinal KW - Paralysis, Infantile KW - Polio KW - Central nervous system KW - Enterovirus diseases KW - Myelitis KW - Complications KW - Infections KW - polio, epidemic, sickness, disease, illness, medical, medicine, poliomyelitis, infectious, poliovirus, central nervous system, muscle weakness, paralysis, history, historical, 20th century, united states of america, american society, children, childhood, crippling, disability, personal stories, testimonials, diagnosis, post-polio syndrome, hospitalization, hospitals, treatment, braces, crutches, postpoliomyelitis, recovery, rehabilitation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77873943 AB - Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940's and 1950's, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They warned their children not to drink from public fountains, to avoid swimming pools, and to stay away from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the men and women who had acute polio and lived with its crippling consequences. Writing from personal experience, polio survivor Daniel J. Wilson shapes this impassioned book with the testimonials of more than one hundred polio victims, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960. He traces the entire life experience of the survivors-from the alarming diagnosis all the way to the recent development of post-polio syndrome, a condition in which the symptoms of the disease may return two or three decades after they originally surfaced. Living with Polio follows every physical and emotional stage of the disease: the loneliness of long separations from family and friends suffered by hospitalized victims; the rehabilitation facilities where survivors spent a full year or more painfully trying to regain the use of their paralyzed muscles; and then the return home, where they were faced with readjusting to school or work with the aid of braces, crutches, or wheelchairs while their families faced the difficult responsibilities of caring for and supporting a child or spouse with a disability. Poignant and gripping, Living with Polio is a compelling history of the enduring physical and psychological experience of polio straight from the rarely heard voices of its survivors. ER -