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Polio: An American Story

Book by David M. Oshinsky; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...like everyone else, a polio survivor wrote in a questionnaire...rehabilitation, and exercise, polio survi- vors came to regard...condition as stable. They saw polio as a static disease, unlikely...challenged in the 1980s, as polio survivors began to experience health...
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In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History

Book by Kathryn Black; Addison-Wesley, 1996

Subjects:

Black, Virginia--D. 1956--Health, Poliomyelitis--Patients--Arizona--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...overuse, suggesting, sometimes, that polio survivors are overachievers who have taxed...everything to do with having had polio. The disease believed conquered...earlier in patients who had acute polio as older children than in patients...
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On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History

Book by Henry Greenspan; Praeger, 1998

Subjects:

Holocaust Survivors--Interviews--History And Criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal Narratives--History And Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...PBS, "Holocaust: The Survivors Gather--June 18, 1981...for new collections of survivor testimony. The copy stated...readers the reality of polio and how it alters human lives. Thirty-five polio survivors open their hearts to explain...
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The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back

Book by Gertrude Schneider; Praeger Publishers, 1991

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia--Personal Narratives, Jews--Latvia--Biography, Latvia--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...you hear anything about Papa?" Her bouts with typhus and polio cast a pall over our relief at having been liberated. After...Recently the Austrian government advertised that we, the survivors, would finally be eligible to receive a pension. Up to now...
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Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors

Book by Frances Karttunen; Rutgers University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Intercultural Communication, Linguistic Informants--Biography, Translators--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...of traditional Huaorani life. Her family withstood the 1969 polio epidemic that decimated other families, but in 1972 her blind...what disorientation, what uprooting, what actual diseases polio, for example they suffered because we got to them at last...

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Journal Articles on: polio survivors

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A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors

Journal article by Naomi Rogers; Medical History, Vol. 42, 1998

Collections: History, Entire Library

A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors by Naomi Rogers Tony Gould...interspersed with the recollections of polio survivors, draw heavily on (without...conscious awareness among many polio "survivors" (to use Goulds term) that...
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Post-Polio Syndrome: Issues and Strategies for Rehabilitation Counselors

Journal article by Phyllis A. Gordon, David Feldman; The Journal of Rehabilitation, Vol. 68, 2002

Subjects:

Post-polio syndrome--Care and treatment, Postpolio syndrome--Care and treatment, Rehabilitation counseling--Research, Rehabilitation--Methods

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...and Frick (1991) note that polio survivors were generally better educated...Frick (1991) suggest earlier polio survivors typically worked to minimize...Recognizing typical coping styles of polio survivors can improve re-rehabilitation...
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The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown

Journal article by Daniel J. Wilson; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...not only discusses the immediate polio and rehabilitation experience but also explores the lives of polio survivors as they lived with a lifelong disability and later experienced post-polio syndrome. While Wooten draws on...
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Polio / in the Shadow of Polio: a Personal and Social History

Journal article by Tony Gould; Medical History, Vol. 43, 1999

Collections: History, Entire Library

...like carelessness. What saves Polio are the survivors stories, which have an immediacy...interestingly, in doing what so many polio survivors have done when faced with the...disease, commonly called post-polio syndrome: that is, in searching...
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Postpolio Survivors: Needs for and Access to Social and Health Care Services

Journal article by Larry W. Foster, Barbara Berkman, Michelle Wellen, Neil Schuster; Health and Social Work, Vol. 18, 1993

Subjects:

Needs assessment--Surveys, Poliomyelitis--Care and treatment

Collections: Entire Library

...social needs of polio survivors. Most polio articles, however...found that focused on survivor perceptions of polios...specific attributions that survivors give to the cause...its meaning for the polio survivor. In the words of one...fatigue common among polio patients. Social workers...

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Magazine Articles on: polio survivors

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A New Challenge for Former Polio Patients

Magazine article by Evelyn Zamula; FDA Consumer, Vol. 25, June 1991

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Sabin, Albert B.--Research, Salk, Jonas E.--Research, Vaccination--Standards

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...In at least 1 out of 25 survivors, the symptoms are disabling...sure what causes post-polio syndrome, most agree with...Rehabilitation Hospitals Post-polio Program in Washington, D.C.--and a polio survivor himself--who says...
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A Fearful Reminder Stalks Polio's Survivors

Magazine article by Richard C. Thompson; FDA Consumer, Vol. 19, December 1985

Subjects:

Atrophy, Muscular--Physiological aspects, Muscular atrophy--Physiological aspects, Poliomyelitis vaccine--History, Poliomyelitis--Physiological aspects, Poliovirus vaccines--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...it virtually impossible to predict which polio survivors will be afflicted with PPMA, it is also...Rehabilitation and Research in Houston, himself a polio survivor, has studied over 200 post-polio cases. He found that almost all had experienced...
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Bishop's Son Cycles for a Cause

Magazine article by Marites N. Sison; Anglican Journal, Vol. 134, June 2008

Subjects:

Bicycling, Canada, Clergy, Ferris, Ramesh, Fund raising, Poliomyelitis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...support the rehabilitation of polio survivors in poor countries. The campaign...the release of Dr. Jonas Salks polio vaccine, will end in November...campaign began. A 28-year-old polio survivor, Mr. Ferris was adopted from...
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Cycle to Walk Journey Raises $300,000

Magazine article; Anglican Journal, Vol. 134, December 2008

Subjects:

Canada, Ferrish, Ramesh, Fund raising, Poliomyelitis, Special events, Walking

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...support the rehabilitation of polio survivors in poor countries. His campaign...the release of Dr. Jonas Salks polio vaccine, ended on Oct. 1 in...then, Mr. Ferris, himself a polio survivor, had spent 173 days on the road...
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Baby Bird

Magazine article by Tony Gould; New Statesman, Vol. 128, October 11, 1999

Subjects:

Authors--Appreciation, Farrell, Jim--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...struck me as far more evocative of the polio experience than anything in his earlier...play rugby, at which he excelled. Polio put paid to both. It left him with...concentrated his mind on becoming a writer. Polio survivors tend to be "overachievers" according...

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Newspaper Articles on: polio survivors

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Polio Survivors' Later Challenge; Incurable Weakness, Pain Rearrange Life

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 28, 2007

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Polio Survivors Later Challenge; Incurable...WASHINGTON TIMES Post-polio syndrome, or PPS, is a...this mainly affects polio survivors with the syndrome and...cognition," he says. Polio was widespread, and often...
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Polio Survivor

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 21, 2011

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis, Rotary International, Virus diseases

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...coming out," he says. A polio survivor, McDunn delivers lectures...eradication work in 1985, polio infected more than 350,000...carrying mosquito and contracted polio. "It instantly affected me...doctor called the worst case of polio he had ever seen." After...he did. One of the lucky survivors of polio who grew out of the...
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MAN IN THE IRON LUNG; Irish Polio Survivor's Nearly 50 YEARS in Breathing Chamber

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), November 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MAN IN THE IRON LUNG; Irish Polio Survivors Nearly 50 YEARS in Breathing Chamber...Byline: By LYNNE KELLEHER AN Irish polio survivor who is the only person in Ireland...is the last resident in the polio unit of Cherry Orchard Fever Hospital...
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How Polio Has Returned to Haunt Its Victims in Old Age; as Children They Survived Deadly Epidemics, Now Thousands Face Being Crippled Decades Later

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 9, 2011

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis, Virus diseases

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the estimated 120,000 polio survivors living in the UK. And...also a renewed threat of polio as people travel to Britain...best reduce symptoms. Polio has not been reported...a number of celebrity survivors, including actors Mia...
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Polio Still Casts a Dark Shadow over the Health of Thousands of People across Wales; Thousands of Children in Wales Suffered Permanent Disability after Contracting Polio in the 1940s and 1950s. Polio May Have Been All but Eradicated in the Western World but the 'Forgotten Disease' Is Still Causing Misery, as Health Editor Madeleine Brindley Reports

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 21, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...as a disease of the past, and the polio-related expertise in neurology...after the initial illness, many polio survivors have experienced a new onset of weakness...chief executive of the British Polio Fellowship, said: "Based on the...

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