Prologue

I. AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A DISEASE

1. One Polio Story

2. In the Family

3. A Polio School

II. STASIS AND KINESIS

4. Paralytic Polio and Moving Pictures

5. Handi-Capitalism and Cinema Business

6. The Cast of Rear Window; or, Cinema and Akinesia

III. POLITICS

7 Polio and the Great Wars

8 Remembering Roosevelt

9 What We Can Learn, If We Hurry

AFTERMATH

Notes

Acknowledgments

Text Credits

Illustration Credits

List of Boxes

Name Index

Subject Index

Marc Shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University.

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