1st Edition

Passage Through Crisis Polio Victims and Their Families

By Fred Davis Copyright 1991
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis. Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating--and, for its time, innovative--analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpreta-tion of the meaning of physical disability in American society. In his new opening... Read more
Introduction; The Crisis Experience; Perspectives on Recovery; Perspectives on Recovery; The Family; The Family; Implications

Biography

Fred Davis