Polio and Its Aftermath : : The Paralysis of Culture / / Marc Shell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Shell, Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; I: Autobiographies of a Disease --; 1. One Polio Story --; 2. In the Family --; 3. A Polio School --; II: Stasis and Kinesis --; 4. Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures --; 5. Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business --; 6. The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia --; III. Politics --; 7. Polio and the Great Wars --; 8. Remembering Roosevelt --; 9. What We Can Learn, If We Hurry --; Aftermath --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Text Credits --; Illustration Credits --; List of Boxes --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043541; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marc Shell.

In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.