Dirt and Disease
Download or Read eBook Dirt and Disease PDF written by Naomi Rogers and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Naomi Rogers |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0813517869 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780813517865 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Dirt and Disease by : Naomi Rogers
Book excerpt: 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.
