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In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History Book

In 1954 Kathryn Blacks mother became one of the millions of people worldwide stricken with polio. A year later as the Salk vaccine became widely available the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief and promptly buried its memories along with its dead. In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history.Read More

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    A memoir of her mother's horrifying descent into an iron lung--and into the grave two years later--this powerful, heart-wrenching book is also 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 author's mother, contracted 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 survive, but her daughter, six years old when her mother died, grew up to write an important first-hand account of this frightening crippler.

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    In 1954 Kathryn Black’s mother became one of the millions of people worldwide stricken with polio. A year later, as the Salk vaccine became widely available, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and promptly buried its memories along with its dead.In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history. Black explores the lethal progression of her mother’s illness and its devastating emotional impact upon her family, interweaving her story with chapters that broaden into the social and historical context of the epidemic that randomly swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Rich with anecdotes from Black’s years of interviews and correspondence, In the Shadow of Polio is a journey into the homes and hospitals, the lives and memories of the people who lived through this period in our common past.

  • 0201154900
  • 9780201154900
  • Kathryn Black
  • 25 April 1997
  • Da Capo Press Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 330
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