Polio Wars (124 page)

Navy, use of film/movies,
246

Neostigmine (Prostigmine),
122

New Amsterdam News
,
209
,
361

New Deal,
150

Newell, Betty,
421

New England Journal of Medicine
,
70
,
72
,
119
,
173

New Hope for the Handicapped
,
173

Newsweek
,
160
,
317
,
323
,
381

New Yorker
,
276

New York Daily Mirror
,
85

New York Herald Tribune
,
273

New York Journal-American
,
187
,
188

New York Medicine
,
275

New York Post
,
172
,
274
,
275

New York Sun
,
276

New York Times
,
276
,
321
,
381
,
403
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404

New York Tribune
,
272

Nichols, Dudley,
251
,
275
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276

Nielsen, Kim,
156

Nightingale, Florence,
xvii
,
4
,
6
,
323
,
405
,
407
,
409

Nudelman, Dorothea,
420

Nurse Edith Cavell
(movie),
263

Nurses

assumed to be altruistic,
125
,
199
,
248
–
250

assumed to be humble,
24
,
41
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42
,
55
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65
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66
,
95
,
126
,
211
,
413
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414

compared to scientific researchers,
68
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84
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87
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101
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200
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308
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309
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314
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341
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366
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373
,
407

debates about professional training,
7
,
253
,
280
,
409
,
412
,
415

depiction by Hollywood,
250
,
253
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255
,
255
f
,
256
,
258
,
275

Institute training of,
110
,
124
,
168
,
207
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208
,
346
,
360

Kenny as nurse among,
xvii
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4
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7
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8
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11
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38
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40
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42
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46
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56
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63
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73
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87
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92
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107
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110
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111
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119
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152
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159
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209
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224
,
405
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407

Kenny lecture/demonstration for,
163
f

Kenny supporters as,
9
,
188
,
190
–
191
,
215
,
217

lacking authority as not physicians,
7
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14
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57
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71
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72
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187
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192
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210
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219
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319
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323
,
352
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356
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358
,
376
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404
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412
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414

polio survivors as,
151
,
165

role in polio care,
xii
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xiv
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xviii
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15
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40
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42
,
91
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94
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124
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152
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153
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161
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169
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173
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198
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223
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346
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377
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418
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420

role in war,
6
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43
,
88
,
355

rural training and work of,
4
–
7
,
53
,
216

training films and,
261
–
262
,
319

The Nursing Care of Patients with Infantile Paralysis
(Stevenson),
15

Nursing Care of Poliomyelitis
(film),
319

Nye, Jarvis,
371
,
410

Ober, Frank,
100
,
115

“Observations on the Kenny Treatment of Poliomyelitis” (Krusen),
95

O'Connor, Basil

background of,
16
,
31
–
32
n
97

belief in free markets,
309

on best polio care,
200
,
212

break with Kenny,
113
,
187
,
215
,
317
,
374
,
408

defense of NFIP,
67
–
68
,
187
,
192
–
195
,
200
,
226

funding of Kenny's work,
22
–
23

Kenny as “Amazon” comment,
323

Kenny method courses and,
90

Kenny/Roosevelt meeting and,
155
f
,
155

Kenny's debates with,
xvii

meeting with Kenny,
16
–
17

NRC and,
205
–
206

polio vaccine and,
417

promotion of Kenny's work,
115

on publication of Kenny's books,
63
–
64
,
117
–
118

Roosevelt and,
3
,
16
,
84
,
107
,
110
,
213
,
222
,
312

Sullivan on,
275

suspicion of polio “cures,”
16

in
True Comics
,
150

O'Connor, John,
310

Ogden, John,
380

O'Hara, Joseph,
311
,
313
–
314

O'Neil, William,
322

Opdahl, Margaret,
270
,
423

Organized medicine, Golden Age of,
303
–
305

Organized opposition, to Kenny,
215
–
218

Orr, H. Winnett,
274

Orthopedic surgeons

in charge of polio care,
xiii
–
xiv
,
17
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39
,
43
–
44
,
112
,
418

demonization/silencing of,
119
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165
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170
,
203
,
277

Kenny method and,
17
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20
,
59
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68
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69
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84
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96
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97
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100
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104
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109
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121
,
197
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199
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255
,
352
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356
,
374

status/power relations,
x
,
19
,
41
,
108
,
112
,
120
,
343
,
357

Ostenso, Martha,
107
,
248

Osteopathy,
57
,
60
,
93
,
114
,
169
,
172
,
266
,
353

O'Toole, Donald,
215
,
217

Owen, Richard,
422
,
423

Page, Earle,
379
–
380
,
381

Pageant Magazine
,
363
,
367

Pain

in acute stage polio,
168

cause of,
317

as central to polio,
20
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40
,
47
,
100
,
108
,
161
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163
,
260
,
420

as minor symptom,
xiv
,
119
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162
,
194
,
198

as serious symptom,
xvi
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xix
,
122
,
265
,
343
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344

“Pain and Spasm in Poliomyelitis” (symposium),
344

Pankhurst, Christabel,
323

Paramount,
253

Parents

role in cerebral palsy therapy,
214

role in polio therapy,
9
,
11
,
45
,
53
,
86
,
90
,
93
,
98
,
117
,
151
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158
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161
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165
,
201
,
268
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269
,
307
,
413
,
417

Parents Association for the Handicapped,
214

Parents Magazine
,
106
,
212

Park, William,
313

Parran, Thomas,
200

Parry, Florence Fischer,
106
,
274

Patients

active participation of,
xviii
,
163
–
165

recoveries of,
165
–
167

truth-telling to,
167

Patterson, Eleanor,
201
,
224

Paul, John,
39
–
40
,
86
,
379
,
386
n
67
,
413
–
414

Paulson, Lorraine,
93

Payne, Anthony,
380

Pediatrics
,
344

“Pennies for Kenny” campaign,
208
–
213

Pepper O. H. (Perry),
205

Perkins, James,
262
–
264
,
269

Peterson, Florence Mae.
See
Kendall, Florence and Henry

Pfennig Parade,
358

Philanthropy.
See
Polio philanthropy

Photography

as history of polio care,
173

of Kenny,
6
,
89
,
90
f
,
93
,
102
,
107
,
155
,
155
f
,
162
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163
f
,
188
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191
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249
,
345
,
369

of Kenny's funeral,
381

in making of Kenny's legacy,
415
,
423
,
434
n
124

of patients as scientific evidence by Kenny,
9
–
10
,
62
,
117
,
251
,
261

in promotion of Kenny Foundation,
219
,
232
,
360
,
363

in promotion of
Sister Kenny
,
272
,
274
,
275

in recording electrical nerve impulses,
102
–
103
,
178
n
82

“Physiatrist,”
33
n
107

Physical medicine

professional organizations,
103
,
120
–
121
,
197
,
265
,
362
,
418

specialists,
14
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17
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18
,
45
,
94
,
100
,
115
,
119
,
123
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124
,
172
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173
,
205
,
265
–
266
,
379
,
414
,
418
–
419

status/power relations,
19
,
40
,
108
,
120
–
121
,
169
,
204
,
319
,
343
,
361

textbooks,
62
,
224
,
322
,
357

use of films,
246
,
260
,
266

Physical Medicine
(Krusen),
62

Physical Medicine: the Science of Dermo-Neuro-Muscular Therapy as Applied to Infantile Paralysis
(Kenny),
224
,
322

Physical therapists

demonstrations to,
9
,
58
–
62
,
92
f
,
159

disability care by,
xii
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xiii
,
xiv
,
13
,
166
,
168
,
343
,
378
,
419
–
420

Institute training of,
110
,
222
,
346

Kenny method assessment by,
21
,
40
–
53
,
119
–
120
,
163
,
164
,
406
,
418
–
419

Kenny's image and,
60
,
89
,
100

Kenny's teaching of,
41
,
69
,
89
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90
,
92
–
94
,
207
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208
,
224