Bracing accounts : the literature and culture of polio in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008], ©2008.

223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.

Introduction: reality and its representations : stories from the American polio era -- "A battle of silence" : women's magazines in the postwar polio era -- "No time for tears"? : gender, fiction, and denial in polio memoirs -- "Crippled by history" : polio and the past in contemporary novels -- "Heads, you win!" : newsletters and magazines of the polio nation -- Conclusion: "The voice is still there" : some final notes on postwar polio culture.