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Books on the experience of physical disability

These books help to describe what it was/is like to be physically disabled.

A Paralysing Fear, The Triumph over polio in America
by N.Gilden Seavey,Jane S.Smith and P.Wagner
Published by TV Books

An excellent book about the effect of polio on people in the USA. A video was also available.
ISBN 1575000709
240 pages, 1998

Something to Lean On
by Barry North

Published 1999
by the British Polio Fellowship
A history of the BPF.
£3.99 (plus post and packing) from the BPF.

A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir
by Charles L. Mee
Growing up with polio in 1950s America.
ISBN 0316558524

In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
by Kathryn Black
The account of how polio affected the mother of a 4 year old child in 1950s America.  Black intersperses research about the polio epidemic that swept the U.S. from 1942 to 1953 throughout her memoir. She vividly describes the desperate search for the cause of the disease and for ways to treat it, as well as provides accounts of families devastated by it. 330 pages.
Perseus Publishing
ISBN 0201154900

The Human Touch: Easter Seals Book
by Pat Boone  
Pat Boone has become known as "Mr Easter Seals", in addition to his other accomplishments. This book tells the story of how the Easter Seals came to be. Published in 1991, by Pat Boone, this book is also associated with the Enesco corporation. Filled with black and white pictures of children and adults who are associated with The Easter Seals, this book also has photos of celebrities who have contributed to the cause.
188 pages 1992

March of Dimes: Images of America
by David W.Rose
Paperback: 128 pages
Arcadia (November 2003)
ISBN: 07385125
A history of the March of Dimes movement from the early fight against polio to the present day.

A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors
by Tony Gould

Yale University Press 
The story of polio including personal accounts of what it's like to be physically disabled and in leg-braces. An excellent book.