Elegy For A Disease

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Elegy For A Disease

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Author : Anne Finger
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-09-17

Elegy For A Disease written by Anne Finger and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Health & Fitness categories.

During the first half of the twentieth century, epidemics of polio caused fear and panic, killing some who contracted the disease, leaving others with varying degrees of paralysis. The defeat of polio became a symbol of modern technology's ability to reduce human suffering. But while the story of polio may have seemed to end on April 12, 1956, when the Salk vaccine was declared a success, millions of people worldwide are polio survivors. In this dazzling memoir, Anne Finger interweaves her personal experience with polio with a social and cultural history of the disease. Anne contracted polio as a very young child, just a few months before the Salk vaccine became widely available. After six months of hospitalization, she returned to her family's home in upstate New York, using braces and crutches. In her memoir, she writes about the physical expansiveness of her childhood, about medical attempts to "fix" her body, about family violence, job discrimination, and a life rich with political activism, writing, and motherhood. She also writes an autobiography of the disease, describing how it came to widespread public attention during a 1916 epidemic in New York in which immigrants, especially Italian immigrants, were scapegoated as being the vectors of the disease. She relates the key roles that Franklin Roosevelt played in constructing polio as a disease that could be overcome with hard work, as well as his ties to the nascent March of Dimes, the prototype of the modern charity. Along the way, we meet the formidable Sister Kenny, the Australian nurse who claimed to have found a revolutionary treatment for polio and who was one of the most admired women in America at mid-century; a group of polio survivors who formed the League of the Physically Handicapped to agitate for an end to disability discrimination in Depression-era relief projects; and the founders of the early disability-rights movement, many of them polio survivors who, having been raised to overcome obstacles and triumph over their disabilities, confronted a world filled with barriers and impediments that no amount of hard work could overcome. Anne Finger writes with the candor and the skill of a novelist, and shows not only how polio shaped her life, but how it shaped American cultural experience as well.

Elegy For Iris

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Author : John Bayley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Elegy For Iris written by John Bayley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Alzheimer's disease categories.

A tribute to author Iris Murdoch, now stricken with Alzheimer's disease, written by her husband of over forty years, in which he discusses their passionate love relationship and traces the progression of her affliction.

Disease Or The Vanity And Misery Of Human Life A Poem Etc

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Author : Thomas Rogers (writer of verse.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1741

Disease Or The Vanity And Misery Of Human Life A Poem Etc written by Thomas Rogers (writer of verse.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1741 with categories.

Elegies Of Old Age Made English From The Latin Of C Cornelius Gallus Or Rather Of Maximianus Etruscus By H Walker In Verse

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Author : Caius Cornelius GALLUS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1688

Elegies Of Old Age Made English From The Latin Of C Cornelius Gallus Or Rather Of Maximianus Etruscus By H Walker In Verse written by Caius Cornelius GALLUS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1688 with categories.

Elegy For Scarecrows

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Author : Keigh-Cee Welsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Elegy For Scarecrows written by Keigh-Cee Welsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with American poetry categories.

Elegy for Scarecrows is a collection of poems in which the body is a living spirit subjected to disease, injury, and death. This damage comes from the inside, unknown and mysterious, while other times it is forced upon the body by another. Elegy for Scarecrows delves into the body, the violence of being other, and the frustration with the unidentified. It is poetry of despair, but also compassion. Here, the voiceless are given voices to witness the elegy of vulnerable life.

Threnodia Or An Elegy On The Unexpected And Unlamented Death Of The M Master Of B Balliol Dr Lee Faithfully Done Into Modern English With Annotations By J F

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Author : Joannes FREINSHEMIUS (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1753

Threnodia Or An Elegy On The Unexpected And Unlamented Death Of The M Master Of B Balliol Dr Lee Faithfully Done Into Modern English With Annotations By J F written by Joannes FREINSHEMIUS (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1753 with categories.

An Elegy On The Death Of The Honourable Mr Robert Boyle By Matthew Morgan

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Author : Robert Boyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1692

An Elegy On The Death Of The Honourable Mr Robert Boyle By Matthew Morgan written by Robert Boyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1692 with Elegiac poetry, English categories.

Forgotten

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Author : Marlene Goldman
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-11-07

Forgotten written by Marlene Goldman and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation. Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Forgotten asserts that the only crisis associated with Canada’s aging population is one of misunderstanding. Revealing that turning illness into something monstrous can have dangerous consequences, Marlene Goldman seeks to identify the political and social influences that have led to the gothic disease model and its effects on society. Examining the works of authors such as Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Jane Rule, and Caroline Adderson alongside news stories and medical and historical discussions of Alzheimer’s disease, Goldman provides an alternative, person-centred perspective to the experiences of aging and age-related dementia. Deconstructing the myths that have transformed cognitive decline into a corrosive fantasy, Forgotten establishes the pivotal role that fictional and non-fictional narratives play in cultural interpretations of disease.

Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits

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Author : Linda Gordon
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-10-11

Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits written by Linda Gordon and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

The Background Of Gray S Elegy

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Author : Amy Louise Reed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924

The Background Of Gray S Elegy written by Amy Louise Reed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with English poetry categories.