{"product_id":"polio-wars-9780195380590","title":"Polio Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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 metho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolio Wars provides an excellent account of the politics of gender, philanthropy, and American medicine during the mid-twentieth century, and will benefit junior and more senior scholars alike. * Martin Moore, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ; Part One ; 1  A Bush Nurse in America ; 2  The Battle Begins ; 3  Changing Clinical Care ; Part Two ; 4  Polio and Disability Politics ; 5  The Polio Wars ; 6 Celluloid ; Part Three ; 7  Kenny Goes to Washington ; 8  Fading Glory ; 9  I Knew Sister Kenny","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766919790935,"sku":"9780195380590","price":34.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195380590.jpg?v=1758711724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/polio-wars-9780195380590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}