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By Naomi Rogers. 258 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1992. $39 (cloth); $15 (paper). ISBN 0-1835-1786-9.

Dirt and Disease is a medical and social history of polio-myelitis in the United States in the early 20th century. Polio cases began to increase in Western Europe and the United States around the turn of the century and reached a terrifying peak in 1916, when a major epidemic hit the mid-Atlantic states. The author, a historian at the University of Alabama, uses the 1916 epidemic as the focal point for an intelligent, well-written account of the medical theories, public health strategies, and social prejudices of the period.

Rogers' book provides an insightful look at how physicians and public health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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