Poliomyelitis in the City of Córdoba: Morbidity, Knowledge and the Research Performed by a Medical Elite in Argentinas Interior, 1943-1953

摘要

The outbreak of poliomyelitis in the early 1950s turned it into one of the most feared diseases in the twentieth century. The resulting deaths and the thousands of children and adults who were handicapped world-wide made it a real threat which was only co