Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
by
Naomi Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced...