Polio Voices: An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts

by Julie K. Silver and Daniel J. Wilson

Book Overview

Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian Daniel Wilson help readers understand the sheer terror that gripped parents of young children every spring and summer during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant. Interviewed as part of the Polio Oral History Project directed by Silver and funded by Harvard, foundations, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275994929
• ISBN13: 9780275994921
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"