Polio and Its Aftermath : : The Paralysis of Culture / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Prologue -- |t I: Autobiographies of a Disease -- |t 1. One Polio Story -- |t 2. In the Family -- |t 3. A Polio School -- |t II: Stasis and Kinesis -- |t 4. Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures -- |t 5. Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business -- |t 6. The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia -- |t III. Politics -- |t 7. Polio and the Great Wars -- |t 8. Remembering Roosevelt -- |t 9. What We Can Learn, If We Hurry -- |t Aftermath -- |t Notes -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Text Credits -- |t Illustration Credits -- |t List of Boxes -- |t Name Index -- |t Subject Index |
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