Polio Wars

Polio Wars

Author: Naomi Rogers

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0195380592

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A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.