Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR

by Naomi Rogers

Book Overview

"Will have an enthusiastic audience among historians of medicine who are familiar, for the most part, only with later twentieth-century efforts to combat polio." --Allan M. Brandt, University of North Carolina

Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813517869
• ISBN13: 9780813517865
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"