Polio Wars (120 page)

Paul on,
334
n
88

Second International Polio Conference,
372
–
374

at Warm Springs,
419

Congressional hearings

on charities,
414

on health insurance,
186

on NSF bill,
301
–
304
,
306
–
315
,
319
–
320

on opposition to Kenny,
215
,
217

on polio,
404
,
426

regulatory power of government and,
327

Consumer Reports
,
324

“The Contribution of Sister Elizabeth Kenny to the Treatment of Poliomyelitis” (Knapp),
414

Convalescent serum controversy,
86

Coronet
,
323

Cosmopolitan
,
219

Coulter, John,
17
,
119

Council of Physical Therapy,
17

Country Women's Association (CWA),
370
,
422

Crawford, Harold,
7
,
258

Creelman, Eileen,
276

Crego, Craig,
45
,
61
,
86
,
98
,
100
,
169
,
198
,
199

“Crippled children,” as public image of polio,
156

Crippled Children bureaus/divisions,
43
,
150
,
307
,
319
,
324
–
326
,
348
,
363

Crippled children's homes,
x
,
xii
,
43
,
152
,
425

Crosby, Bing

fundraising by,
219
,
364

“Sock Polio” campaign and,
ix
,
218
,
219
f
,
221
,
222
,
224

Crowther, Bosley,
276

Crutches/braces, as addiction,
174

Curare,
122
,
308
,
318
,
343

Curtis, Dorothy,
353
–
358

Cusack, Peter,
13
–
14
,
213
,
245

Czechoslovakia, Kenny's work in,
355
–
357
,
367

Daedalus
,
423

Darling, George,
205

Davis, Audrey,
415

Dayton, Donald,
319
,
350

Deacon, Alfred,
59
,
79
n
117
,
102
,
153
,
164
,
214
,
318
,
321
,
350

A Decade of Doing
(NFIP),
309

Deformity, Kenny's definition of,
104
,
117
,
152
–
153
,
371

De Kruif, Paul,
13
,
122

Delano, Jack,
126
,
163
f

Democrats/Democratic Party

Kenny supporters in California,
320
,
325

Kenny supporters in Congress,
215
–
217

Kenny supporters in Minnesota,
270

Kenny supporters in New Jersey,
223
,
315

NFIP supporters,
16
,
22
,
190
,
196
,
221
,
308
–
310

Detroit Free Press
,
215
–
217

Deutsch, Albert,
199
,
210
–
211
,
319
,
323

Diehl, Harold S.

grant application and,
204

negotiations with Kenny,
201

NFIP fundraising and,
113

open-mindedness of,
422

in polio wars,
196
–
197
,
200

Sister Kenny
and,
273

Disability politics

adult polio survivors and,
156
–
158

changes in,
172
–
174

“crippled children” and,
156

GWSF and,
15

Kenny and,
151
–
154

patients/parents, role of,
158
–
161

public's view and,
157
–
158

Roosevelt and,
154
–
156

truth-telling to patients,
167

Warm Springs and,
37

World War II and,
149
–
150

“The Disabled Can be Independent,”
173

Disabled people, expectations of,
151

Disabled Persons Association of America,
149
,
188

Dixon, Owen,
201
,
217

Dock, William,
197

Dockweiler, George,
347

Draper, George,
199

Drugs, to treat spasm,
121
–
122

D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children,
92
–
93
,
122

Duhig, James,
280
,
409

Eisenhower, Dwight,
380

Elitism, government-sponsored research and,
305

Elizabeth Kenny Institute

demonstrations at,
163
f

design of/models for,
101
,
306

founding of,
87

fundraising campaigns of,
202
,
208
–
211
,
270

Kenny's resignation from,
344
–
347

in Kline campaign,
196
,
270

patients/treatment at,
124
,
152
,
158
–
159
,
163
f
,
165
–
166
,
202
,
213
–
214
,
249
,
260
,
267
,
280
,
318
,
343
,
369

populist movement and,
187

as proposed research center,
169
,
188
,
204
–
208
,
216
,
220
,
306
,
309

public acclaim for,
87
,
106
,
195
,
277
,
325

as rehabilitation center,
411
–
412

as training center,
109
–
110
,
112
,
116
,
124
–
125
,
159
,
197
,
260
,
351
–
352
,
360
–
361
,
380

Elson, Mildred,
42
,
43
,
50
,
406

Enders, John,
342
,
349
,
373
–
374
,
404
,
408
–
409

Ernst, Margaret Opdahl,
270
,
423

Eugenics, acceptance of,
150
–
151

Europe, polio treatment in,
342
–
344

An Evaluation of Psychobiologic Factors in the Re-Education Phase of the Kenny Treatment for Infantile Paralysisö (Bohnengel),
164

“Evaluation of the Kenny Treatment of Infantile Paralysis,”
199
,
414

“The Evil Sequelae of Complete Bedrest,”
173

Exchange Club,
114
,
197
,
279

Faber, Harold,
317

“Fact and Fancy in Poliomyelitis”
(British Medical Journal)
,
119

Fadden, Arthur,
381

Fadell, Fred,
206
,
234
n
142

Farquarson, Julia,
409

Farquarson, Mary,
328

Fear, of polio infection,
xii
,
5
,
20
,
91
,
113
,
161

Federal Security Agency,
320
–
321
,
324

Feminism, global,
366
–
368

Feminist scholars, rediscovery of Kenny,
420
–
421

Films/movies.
See also
The Kenny Concept
(film);
Sister Kenny
(movie);
The Value of a Life
(film)

to demonstrate methods,
245
–
246

Kenny's early films,
245

medical authority and,
246
–
247

First International Poliomyelitis Conference,
316
–
319
,
323

Fishbein, Morris

alternative medicine and,
302

on AMA report,
200

antisemitism and,
191

attack on alternative practitioners,
57

autobiography of,
412

as censor,
39
,
56
–
58
,
63
,
64
–
65
,
85
,
121
n
7
,
211
,
257
,
271

fall from favor of,
186
,
347

as
JAMA
editor,
54
,
55
,
67
–
68

Kendalls' report and,
52

Kenny and,
xvii
,
56
–
58
,
123
,
215
–
216

on
The Kenny Concept
,
271

populist movement and,
190

on publication of Kenny's book,
63
–
64

on voluntarism,
310

waning influence of,
307

Fletcher, Allen,
30
n
77

Flexner, Abraham,
12

Ford, Henry,
195

Ford, Henry, II,
305

Ford, John,
251

Fox, Belle,
322
,
367

Fox, Mona,
322
,
367

Fox, William,
322
,
367

Frankel, Charles,
203
–
204

Fryberg, Abraham

background of,
29
n
68

Institute visit of,
280

as Kenny ally,
11
,
12
,
381

in Kenny's obituary,
381
–
382

Functionality, as crucial for patients,
xiv
,
xv
,
xix
,
11
,
47
,
49
,
86
,
152
,
160
,
170

Funsten, Robert V.,
104
,
162
,
198
,
203

Further reading

on American medicine and consumerism,
37

on anti-Catholicism,
244

on Cold War,
401

on Crosby and movies,
244

on disability history/politics,
37
,
182
–
183

on drugs, history of,
145

on Fishbein and medical politics,
244

on gender,
401

on history, remembering/forgetting of,
426

on media use by government,
145

on media use by philanthropic groups,
145

on medical care and race,
244

on medical politics,
83
,
244
,
339
–
340

on medical populism,
243

on medical practice,
xxiii

on medical science and research,
340

on medicine and antisemitism,
243
–
244

on medicine and film, history of,
296
–
297

on medicine and racism,
243
–
244

on National Foundation history,
36

on nursing in Australia/North America,
36

on polio, experiences of,
183

on polio after 1945,
435

on polio and physical therapy,
83

on polio in Australia/North America,
35
–
36

on race/racism,
244
,
401

on therapeutic change,
145

on Warm Springs,
37
,
183

Galland, Walter,
414

Gardner, Ethel,
93
,
110
–
113

Garson, Greer,
211

Gender

global activism and,
367

medical authority and,
41
–
42
,
55
,
57

medical culture and,
xviii
,
17
,
187
,
189
,
403
–
405
,
424

patients and,
153

scientific innovation and,
xi
–
xii
,
101
,
107
,
341
,
369

in
Sister Kenny
movie,
253

“Geographic” funding models,
304

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation (GWSF),
14
–
15

Germany, Kenny's work in,
357
–
358

Ghormley, Ralph,
99
,
103
–
105
,
201

Giaciolli, Ruth,
93
–
94