Bracing accounts : the literature and culture of polio in postwar America

Bracing accounts : the literature and culture of polio in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.

Author/creator	Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2008.
Description	223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--20th century --History and criticism. Poliomyelitis--Patients --United States --Biography --History and criticism. Poliomyelitis in literature. Poliomyelitis--United States --History. Literature and medicine--United States --History --20th century. Poliomyelitis--history --United States. History, 20th Century--United States. Medicine in the Arts--United States. Medicine in Literature--United States.

Contents	Introduction: reality and its representations : stories from the American polio era -- "A battle of silence" : women's magazines in the postwar polio era -- "No time for tears"? : gender, fiction, and denial in polio memoirs -- "Crippled by history" : polio and the past in contemporary novels -- "Heads, you win!" : newsletters and magazines of the polio nation -- Conclusion: "The voice is still there" : some final notes on postwar polio culture.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN	2008014064
ISBN	9780838641736 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0838641733 (alk. paper)