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Book SynopsisLiving 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.
Trade Review"A polio survivor himself, Daniel Wilson has scoured America's polio narratives in order to distill the essential polio experience from the onset of the disease through to the late effects. In focusing on those individuals who have felt driven to recount their experiences of coming to terms with differing degrees of disability, he provides valuable insights into the history not just of a disease but of a generation - those postwar, pre-Salk vaccine baby boomers who succumbed to the annual epidemics of what was still sometimes called 'infantile paralysis.' " - Tony Gould, author of A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors"
