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A suspenseful, authoritative account of how the battle against a mid-century polio epidemic sparked a revolution in medical care. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of two innovations (ICUs and mechanical ventilation) back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. This vivid, gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world includes a riveting section on the Danish doctors who used their freedom of movement to admit Jewish patients into the hospital with bland diagnoses and smuggle them out to safety, often to Sweden. The Autumn Ghost tells the original story of the heroes of the ICU. It also includes the story of FDR and disability accessibility that he helped pioneer. Proud partner of the Jewish Book Council.

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