Polio and Its Aftermath : The Paralysis of Culture / Marc Shell.
Shell, Marc, author.
2009
RC181.U5 -- S53 2005eb
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Title
Polio and Its Aftermath : The Paralysis of Culture / Marc Shell.
Author
Shell, Marc, author.
ISBN
9780674043541
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043541
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (334 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674043541 doi
Call Number
RC181.U5 -- S53 2005eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.8/35
Summary
In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
I: Autobiographies of a Disease
1. One Polio Story
2. In the Family
3. A Polio School
II: Stasis and Kinesis
4. Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures
5. Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business
6. The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia
III. Politics
7. Polio and the Great Wars
8. Remembering Roosevelt
9. What We Can Learn, If We Hurry
Aftermath
Notes
Acknowledgments
Text Credits
Illustration Credits
List of Boxes
Name Index
Subject Index

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