Polio and Its Aftermath
The Paralysis of Culture
Published on 1. July 2009
334 pages
978-0-674-04354-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04354-1 (9780674043541)
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06/2005
Harvard University Press
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Content
Prologue I Autobiographies of a Disease 1 One Polio Story 27 2 In the Family 57 3 A Polio School 92 II Stasis and Kinesis 4 Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures 129 5 Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business 139 6 The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia 150 III Politics 7 Polio and the Great Wars 181 8 Remembering Roosevelt 190 9 What We Can Learn, If We Hurry 204 Aftermath 227 Notes 231 Acknowledgments 297 Text Credits 299 Illustration Credits 303 List of Boxes 307 Name Index 309 Subject Index 313
