Mind Over Muscle: Surviving Polio in New Zealand
- ISBN-10
- 0864692110
- ISBN-13
- 9780864692115
- Series
- Mind Over Muscle
- Category
- People with disabilities
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Karen Peterson Butterworth
Description
"The polio epidemics of 1916 and 1956 may have faded in most people' memories, but they dramatically changed the lives of a large number of New Zealanders.
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