Books

"Books" includes volumes written by physicians and researchers about the late effects of polio and post-polio syndrome. Biographical and autobiographical works about the polio experience dating from the 1950s to present are also included.

To Catch the Snowflakes: Memoir of a Polio Survivor, an Adoptive Parent, a High School Principal, and a Father of an Addict

Schulenberg, Lawrence J.

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Man in a Wheelchair

Schwab, Charles J.

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In The Fortune Teller's Kiss

Serotte, Brenda

Literary-award winning poet Brenda Serotte uses prose to recall her Sephardic Jewish childhood in post-WWII New York and the dreaded reality of polio in the pre-vaccine era. With bittersweet humor she colorfully relates her family's reaction to her polio and the efforts to overcome disability within the mysterious customs and rituals of her Turkish-born relatives.

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The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis

Seytre, B. and Shaffer M.

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With Reckless Abandon: Memoirs of a Boat-Obsessed Life

Sharp, Capt. Jim

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Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture

Shell, Marc

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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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

Shreve, Susan Richards

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Post-Polio Syndrome: A Guide for Polio Survivors & Their Families

Silver, Julie

With a forward by Lauro S. Halstead, MD, this significant guide for polio survivors and their families offers a compassionate overview. Dr. Silver presents her clinical experiences with notes, references and short chapters concentrating on issues such as finding expert medical care, conserving energy, preventing falls, intimacy issues and the emotional and psychological aspects of coping with PPS.

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Postpolio Syndrome

Silver, Julie and (the late) Anne Gawne

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

Silver, Julie K., and Wilson, Daniel J.

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