Naomi Rogers

Polio Wars

Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780195380590
• ISBN-10: 0195380592
• Artikelnr.: 37779598

Autorenporträt

Naomi Rogers, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor in the Program for the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University where she teaches medical students, undergraduates and graduate students.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One
1 A Bush Nurse in America
2 The Battle Begins
3 Changing Clinical Care
Part Two
4 Polio and Disability Politics
5 The Polio Wars
6 Celluloid
Part Three
7 Kenny Goes to Washington
8 Fading Glory
9 I Knew Sister Kenny