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Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture

Part memoir, part cultural and historical study, this book is an analysis of the disease offering a broad picture of its powerful effect on the world. As a professor of Comparative of Literature and English at Harvard University, Marc Shell (Irving Babbitt), captures the widespread panic of polio before the vaccine, and the cultural aftershocks and uncertainty even today of its eradication in the third world countries.

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