Author: John F. PohlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258938628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
Author: John F. PohlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258938628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
Author: John Florian M. PohlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poliomyelitis
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
Author: John F. PohlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494096502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in the Acute Stage
Author: Sister Elizabeth KennyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258958985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Polio Wars
Author: Naomi RogersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195380592
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
Author: John F. PohlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104855826
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Polio
Author: Thomas AbrahamPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787380874
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
Selling Science
Author: Stephen E. MawdsleyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813574412
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using healthy children—55,000 healthy children—revealing how this long-forgotten incident cleared the path for Salk’s later trial. Mawdsley describes how, in the early 1950s, Dr. William Hammon and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis launched a pioneering medical experiment on a previously untried scale. Conducted on over 55,000 healthy children in Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, this landmark study assessed the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, gamma globulin, to prevent paralytic polio. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals as it harbored potential health risks, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. And though the trial returned dubious results, it was presented to the public as a triumph and used to justify a federally sanctioned mass immunization study on thousands of families between 1953 and 1954. Indeed, the concept, conduct, and outcome of the GG study were sold to health professionals, medical researchers, and the public at each stage. At a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception. Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Selling Science sheds light on the ethics of scientific conduct, and on the power of marketing to shape public opinion about medical experimentation.
Nursing History Review, Volume 23
Author: Patricia D'Antonio, PhD, RN, FAANPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826144551
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource. Included in Volume 23... English as a Barrier Disasters, Nursing, and Community Responded: A Historical Perspective The Most Admired Woman in the World: Forgetting and Remembering in the History of Nursing Ellen N. La Motte: The Making of a Nurse, Writer, and Activist Negotiating Relationships of Power in a Maternal and Child Health Centre: The Experience of WHO Nurse Margaret Campbell Jackson in Iran, 1954-1956
Sister Kenny
Author: Victor CohnPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816657335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Sister Kenny was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian-born nurse, is remembered by thousands of grateful parents and grandparents of young polio patients, as well as others who were less personally affected, as the woman who successfully fought the medical profession to win acceptance of her techniques to combat the crippling effects of this disease. In this biography Victor Cohn, a prize-winning science writer, details the life of Sister Kenny and her significant role in the history of medicine. It is an inspiring story and one which will be of particular interest to those of the present generation who are engaged in the movement for women's equality. Sister Kenny's struggle against the bitter opposition of many doctors to her concepts for the treatment of polio dramatized the then common attitude of male chauvinism on the part of the medical profession toward nurses. The biography traces Sister Kenny's life from her birth in Australia, through her early nursing career in the bush, to her rise to prominence in America. Much of the narrative focuses on her confrontation with the medical establishment. Throughout, the author writes from an objective viewpoint, and in conclusion he assesses Sister Kenny's accomplishments.