Author : Naomi Rogers
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813517865
Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within a set of larger questions about health and disease in twentieth-century American culture.