Dirt and Disease - Polio Before Fdr

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, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within a set of larger questions about health and disease in twentieth-century American culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Garden of Germs: Polio in the United States, 1900-1920
Two. This Dread Spectre: Polio and the New Public Health
Three. The Promise of Science: Polio and the Laboratory
Four. Written in Haste: Polio and the Public
Five. A Humble and Contrite Frame of Mind: Polio and Epidemiology
Epilogue. Polio Since FDR
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index

About the author

NAOMI ROGERS is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Rogers, ROGERS NAOMI
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1992
• EAN: 9780813517865
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-1786-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Health & Medicine in American; Health and Medicine in America; Health and Medicine in American Society series; Health and Medicine in American Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous