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Black, Kathryn

 
9780201407396: In The Shadow Of Polio: A Personal And Social History
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ISBN 10 : 0201407396 ISBN 13 : 9780201407396
Editeur : Da Capo Press, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Black Kathryn

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1954 Kathryn Black's mother became one of the millions of people worldwide stricken with polio. A year later, as the Salk vaccine became widely available, the nation heaved a collective sigh of relief, and promptly buried its memories along with its dead. In the Shadow of Polio offers a penetrating look at this intense and significant period in American history. Black explores the lethal progression of her mother's illness and its devastating emotional impact upon her family, interweaving her story with chapters that broaden into the social and historical context of the epidemic that randomly swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Rich with anecdotes from Black's years of interviews and correspondence, In the Shadow of Polio is a journey into the homes and hospitals, the lives and memories of the people who lived through this period in our common past.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kathryn Black is the winner of the Colorado Book Award for best literary nonfiction for In the Shadow of Polio . A journalist whose work has appeared in many national magazines, she lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two sons.

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Éditeur
Da Capo Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0201407396
ISBN 13 
9780201407396
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
307
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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