A compilation of medical illnesses, diseases, their preventions and treatments.
This well-grounded account documents the quest for a polio vaccine. It reveals professional rivalries and clinical breakthroughs, describes a new era in approaches to public philanthropy, and re-creates the tenor of American culture during the 1940s and ’50s, when every city, suburb, and rural community faced potential tragedy from annual outbreaks of the disease. Read the rest of “Polio : An American Story” »
A polio victim and her 13-year-old daughter work miracles from their Tupelo, Miss., home during the summer of 1964 in Berg’s latest carefully calibrated domestic drama (after The Year of Pleasures). Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant, Paige Dunn delivers her baby from an iron lung, and ends up raising her daughter, Diana, alone after her husband divorces her. Read the rest of “We Are All Welcome Here : A Novel” »