Polio and Its Aftermath : : The Paralysis of Culture /

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Shell, Marc,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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