Suggestions for Further Reading

Polio

Bedoyere, Guy de La. The First Polio Vaccine. World Almanac Library. 2005.

Bookchin, Debbie and Jim Schumacher. The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed. St. Martin's Press. 2004

Bruno, Richard L. The Polio Paradox: Understanding and Treating "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue. Warner Books. 2002.

Offit, Paul A. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. Yale University Press. 2005.

Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story. Oxford University Press. 2006.

Rogers, Naomi. Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR. Rutgers University Press. 1992.

Salgado, Sebastiao. The End of Polio: A Global Effort to end a Disease. Bulfinch Press. 2003.

Shell, Marc. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Harvard University Press. 2005.

Polio: Personal Narratives

Aitken, Sally (Editor) and Helen D'Orazio (Editor). Walking Fingers: The Story of Polio and Those Who Lived with It. Vehicule Press. 2004

Black, Kathryn. In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History. Addison Wesley Publishing Company. 1996.

Finger, Anne. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. St. Martin's Press.  2006

Gould, Tony. A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors. Yale University Press. 1995.

Mason, Martha. Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung. Down Home Press.  2003.

Mee, Charles L. A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir. Little, Brown and Co. 1999.

Sass, Edmund J. and George Gottfried and; Anthony Sorem. Polio's Legacy: An Oral History. University Press of America. 1996.

Wilson, Daniel J. Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors. University of Chicago Press. 2005.

Polio: Fiction

Berg, Elizabeth. We Are All Welcome Here. Random House 2006.

Cooney, Caroline B. Code Orange. Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers. 2005.

Deford, Frank. An American Summer. Sourcebooks. 2002.

Devoto, Pat Cunningham. My Last Days as Roy Rogers. Warner Books. 2000, 1999.

Graham, Winston. The Walking Stick. Doubleday. 1967.

Mullen, Thomas. The Last Town on Earth. Random House. 2006.

Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India. Milkweed Editions. 1991,1988.

Other Epidemics

Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. Viking Adult: Penguin Group. 2004.

Crosby, Molly Caldwell. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. Berkley Books.  2006.

Davis, Mike. The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flue. New Press.  2005.

Engel, Jonathan. The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS. Smithsonian Books/Collins. 2006.

Johnson Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. Riverhead Books. 2006.

Pierce, John R. and Jim Writer. Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. J. Wiley.  2005.

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. Random House. 1994.