publications Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/publications/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:32:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 The Bulletin: A meaning making mechanism for British polio disabled people https://bshm.org.uk/the-bulletin-a-meaning-making-mechanism-for-british-polio-disabled-people/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-bulletin-a-meaning-making-mechanism-for-british-polio-disabled-people/#respond Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:32:58 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=18732 Polio is highly culturally evocative – vaccines on sugar lumps, children in callipers and lifetimes in iron-lung respirators. The Bulletin, published by The British Polio Fellowship, provides an additional perspective. It gives an insight into how polio-disabled people understood and wished to represent themselves. Charlotte Stobart explains. In 1939, Patricia Carey, who contracted polio in […]

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