Name: The Broken Boy (en Inglés)
Price: 21950.00 CLP
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Author: Cockburn, Patrick
ISBN: 9781682192849

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Patrick Cockburn

Editorial

OR Books

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

350

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781682192849

Categorías

Relativo a las personas con discapacidades, minusvalías o afecciones similares, ya sean visibles o inapreciables
Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina
Historia de la medicina

The Broken Boy (en Inglés)

Patrick Cockburn (Autor) · OR Books · Tapa Blanda

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In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The parallels between what happened 65 years ago and today's crisis are both striking and salutary. Cockburn was just six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that polio had broken out in Cork City. Patrick caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord, leading to paralysis of the muscles. Patrick could no longer walk. The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world.