Description
Book Synopsishis book shows readers the reality of polio and how it alters human lives.
Trade ReviewThese accounts are remarkable for the very personal, but never self-pitying, introspective narrative style used in describing the initial painful onset of polio, the bewilderment, the hospitalization, frequent misdiagnosis, overly-radical treatment, including surgery, or no treatment at all, the splinting, casting, isolation, immobilization, or unrelenting exercise and rehabilitative therapy of every sort. * New Jersey Polio Network *
This is a book that every person who has had polio should read and share with their partner in life. * Post Polio Sudbury Chapter *
...useful for illustrating how oral history can retrieve viewpoints of intimate human transactions which temper the documentary dominance of elite professionals...provides the impetus to expand what Sass has helpfully started. * The Oral History Review *
An important, well-crafted book. * CHOICE *
An important, well-crafted book. * CHOICE *
These accounts are remarkable for the very personal, but never self-pitying, introspective narrative style used in describing the initial painful onset of polio, the bewilderment, the hospitalization, frequent misdiagnosis, overly-radical treatment, including surgery, or no treatment at all, the splinting, casting, isolation, immobilization, or unrelenting exercise and rehabilitative therapy of every sort. * New Jersey Polio Network *
This is a book that every person who has had polio should read and share with their partner in life. * Post Polio Sudbury Chapter *
...useful for illustrating how oral history can retrieve viewpoints of intimate human transactions which temper the documentary dominance of elite professionals...provides the impetus to expand what Sass has helpfully started. * The Oral History Review *
