If you are unable to purchase a book, call your local public library and request that they purchase it for circulation.
Note: All prices are subject to tax and shipping.
The following books can be purchased at www.amazon.com:
·
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
***Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History***
Published by Oxford University Press; $18.90
·
Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors
By Daniel J. Wilson; $18.27
·
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
By Jeffrey Kluger; $10.38
·
Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture
By Marc Shell; $30.77
·
Walking Fingers: The Story of Polio and Those Who Lived
It
By Helen D’Orazio; $12.32
·
Polio: A Dose of the Refiner’s Fire: Surviving Polio
By Jeane Curey Dille; $12.95
·
The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine
Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
By Paul A. Offit, MD, Yale University Press; $27.50
·
Chronic Pain and the Family: A New Guide by Julie K.
Silver
Harvard University Press; $11.48
·
Lucky One: Making It Past Polio and Despair by Richard
Maus
Anterior
Publishing; $19.95
·
Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio by Anne
Finger.
Through
the eyes of a polio survivor, this book focuses on the experience of
people who had the disease, and explores discrimination; the disability
rights movement and casts a critical eye on medical treatment.
St,. Martin's Press; $17.91; Can also be purchased
online at
http://www.powells.com/partner/31254/biblio/031234757x.
·
Warm
Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven by Susan Richards
Shreve. A memoir of an era by a patient at Warm Springs at the height
of the polio epidemic. Haughton Mifflin Press; $16.32.
Other books available:
· The
Post-Polio Experience: Psychological Insights and Coping Strategies for
Polio Survivors and Their Families by Margaret E. Backman, Ph.D.
Dr.
Backman examines polio survivors’ psychological reactions to their
earlier experiences and to their current struggles with the late effects
of polio. The book also includes a practical guide for coping with the
emotional aspects of PPS.
Can be purchased online
www.iuniverse.com, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble bookstores or
by calling
1-800-288-4677, Ext. 501; $18.95.
·
Through the Storm: A Polio Story by Robert F. Hall
Beaver’s Pond Press
Can be purchased online
www.beaverspondpress.com; $13.95.
·
Sucking Air: Doing Wheelies: Memories of a Fifties Polio
Survivor by Robert Mauro
Can be purchased online
www.publishamerica.com; $29.95.
·
Behind Enemy Lines: A Memoir by John Durand
Can be purchased online
www.puzzlebox.com; $15.95.
·
The Fortune Teller’s Kiss by Brenda Serotte
University of Nebraska Press; $26.95
Can be purchased online
www.unp.unl.edu;
$15.95.
·
Managing Post-Polio by Lauro Halstead, M.D.
NRh Press; $13.95
- completely revised and updated edition with emphasis on aging
Can be purchased online
http://www.nrhrehab.org/Home+Page+Articles/550.aspx
or by
calling LaShonne Williams-Fraley at 202 877 1010.
·
Love, War, & Polio: The Life and Times of Young Bill
Porteous
Can be purchased online
www.ratholebooks.com; $18.00.