Polio
"This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to con...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO
c2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Biographies of disease. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3139923x*spi |
| Sumario: | "This new title in the Biographies of Disease series offers a thorough examination of medical and scientific efforts to battle polio, from the 19th-century identification of the virus to the great 20th-century epidemics, from the unprecedented campaign to find a vaccine to recent efforts to confront polio in West Africa and South Asia and eliminate it entirely. Beyond the science, Polio looks at the effects of the disease on individuals and the United States as a whole. The book gives readers a sense of what it was like to have polio and to recover from it. It also describes how the search for answers to polio led to the rise of one of America's premier medical charities-- the March of Dimes-- and how modern physical therapy practices emerged alongside the polio epidemics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | x, 171 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [163]-165) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780313358982 9781282341487 |
