The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care

A gripping story of the scientific breakthrough crucial to modern medical care: • explores the polio epidemic that led to the invention of intensive care and ventilators, which weren’t created until 1952.

Will appeal to readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Ghost Map, • and other in-depth investigations into the epidemics and medical breakthroughs that have shaped our lives today.

Explores the reality of a “forgotten” disease: • polio epidemics terrorized communities until the mid 1950s when vaccines were developed, causing more than 15,000 cases of paralysis in the U.S. each year, which older generations will remember.

Timely: • The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of intensive care to our medical system—which was only made possible because of the doctors and scientists detailed in this book.

Polio is back in the news • : in 2022 the U.S. recorded its first polio case in decades in New York, prompting a new push for vaccines and awareness."

© 2023 Greystone Books (E-bog): 9781771649469

Release date

E-bog: 9. maj 2023