Polio Wars (119 page)

Council of Physical Therapy,
17

exhibition of Kenny's methods,
99

in polio wars,
197
–
201

professional legitimacy, principles of,
12
–
13

use of films,
246
–
247

view of polio therapy,
85

American Mercury
,
210

American Nurses Association (ANA),
87
–
88

American Orthopedic Association,
17
,
109
,
115

American Physical Therapy Association (APTA),
41
–
44
,
52

American Physiotherapy Association,
246

Americans with Disability Act,
419

American Veterans Committee,
307

American Weekly
,
57
,
191
,
376

Anderson, Charlotte,
94

Anderson, Gaylord,
426

Angland, Thomas,
386
n
55

“Angry Angel” series,
407
–
410

Antisemitism,
191
,
215
,
218

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
,
414

Archives of Physical Therapy
,
95
,
104
,
107
,
120
,
121
f
,
152

Arden, Felix,
11
,
29
n
70

Argentina fiasco,
110
–
114

Armour, Norman,
111

Army, use of film/movies,
246

Arrow, Michelle,
421

Asia, polio outbreaks in,
342

Australasian
,
9

Australia

American view of,
4

bush nursing in,
4

depicted in
And They Shall Walk
,
106
–
107
,
209
,
247

depicted in
Sister Kenny
,
251
–
258

investigators of Kenny's work,
280

Kenny and federal government of,
15
–
16
,
201
,
217

The Kenny Concept
film in,
268
–
269

Kenny in after 1940,
53
,
65
,
326
,
345
,
351
,
368
–
372
,
375
,
377

Kenny in until 1940,
4
–
12
,
21
–
24
,
41
–
42
,
152
–
153
,
213
,
370
,
375

Kenny's decline and death in,
379
–
381

Sister Kenny
movie in,
280
–
281

at war,
12
,
21
,
84
,
125
,
126
,
155
,
250
,
270

Australian Massage Association,
7
,
40

Avedon, Herbert,
320

Aycock, William,
199

Baizley, Doris,
423

Baldock, Pearl,
380
,
382

Balkema, Toinette,
164

Balme, Harold,
265
–
266

Barnes, Howard,
272

Barrymore, Ethel,
85

Baruch, Bernard,
121
,
141
n
259
,
320
–
321

Bauwens, Philippe,
265
–
266
,
269
–
270
,
289
–
290
n
158

Beard, Gertrude,
42
,
43
–
44
,
50

Bed rest

danger of prolonged,
10
,
72
,
98
,
100
,
116
,
173
,
197
,
318

recommended,
xiv
–
xv
,
5
,
12
–
13
,
15
,
44
–
45
,
49
,
52
,
106
,
123
,
317

rejected by parents,
45
,
159

Behlow, Dorothy,
92
–
93

Belgium

film presentation in,
266
–
267

Kenny's work in,
353
–
354
,
357

Bell, James Ford,
195

Bell, Stanley Willis (Bill),
53
,
56
,
328

Benison, Saul,
412

Bennett, George,
xiv
,
44
,
46
,
61

Bennett, Robert,
91
,
92
,
107
,
120
–
121
,
317
,
414

Berg, Roland,
225
,
318
–
319
,
321
,
377

Berry, Milton, Jr.,
171
–
172

Berry, Milton H.,
170
–
171

Berry School for Paralysis and Spastic Correction,
170
–
172

“Best science” funding models,
304

The Best Years of Our Lives
(movie),
172

Betts, Sonja,
320
,
325

Billig, Harvey,
347
,
363

Bingham, Robert,
97
–
98
,
275
,
350
,
408

Birthday Ball Commission,
6
,
15
,
73
,
312

Black polio survivors,
208
–
209

Bodian, David,
102
,
317
,
376
–
378

Bohnengel, Charles,
164
–
165
,
168

Books/textbooks, on polio therapy

by Kenny,
x
–
xi
,
7
–
8
,
62
–
63
,
87
,
115
–
120
,
121
f
,
224
,
355
,
379

orthopedic,
64
f
,
96
,
254
,
257
,
264
,
317

Bosswell, Mavis,
421

Boswell, Lulu,
209

Bouman, Harry,
102
,
103
,
123

Braces/crutches, as addiction,
174

Brazier, Mary,
123

Brennan, Betty,
380

Bringing Up Baby
(movie),
251

Brisbane Courier-Mail
,
10
,
379
,
381

Brisbane General Hospital

depicted in
Sister Kenny
,
254
,
255
f

The Kenny Concept
shown at,
268

Kenny's demonstration at,
7
,
14
,
40

Kenny's ward at,
11
,
46
,
53
,
345

lottery and,
25
n
18

patient choice at,
53

Brisbane Sunday Telegraph
,
268

Brisbane Telegraph
,
280

British Association of Physical Medicine,
265

British Journal of Nursing
,
406

British Journal of Physical Medicine
,
265

British Medical Journal
,
108
,
119
,
405

Brown, Thomas Stubbs,
280

Brundidge, Harry,
219

Bruno, Richard,
420

Buchthal, Fritz,
317

Bullock, Georgia,
325

Burnet, Francis MacFarlane,
351
,
379
,
413

Burns, Ethel,
128
n
33
,
350

Bush nursing, in Australia,
4

Calderwood, Carmelita,
88

Calhoun, Ethel,
62
,
105
,
246
,
351

Call Me Lucky
(Crosby),
ix

Cannon, Walter Bradford,
117
–
118

Cantor, Eddie,
194

Care During the Recovery Period in Paralytic Poliomyelitis
(Kendall and Kendall),
42

Caregivers

Kenny's emphasis on,
155
,
159
–
160
,
346

mothers as primary,
66
,
177
n
60
,
214
,
225
,
347
,
366

The Care of Poliomyelitis
(Stevenson),
88

Carlson, Earl,
214

Carson, Paul,
121

Carter, Howard,
17

Casey, Richard,
4
,
15
,
34
n
133

“Cause and Prevention of Deformities in Poliomyelitis” (Kenny),
377

Celebrities, NFIP fundraising and,
194
–
195

Celebrity politics,
364
–
366

Cerebral diplegia,
213
–
214

Cerebral palsy

Kenny's work on,
9
,
213
–
214

Sister Kenny
responses and,
277
–
278

“Cerebrospastic” therapies,
214

The Challenge of Polio
(Berg),
225

Chicago Daily News
,
57

Chicago Defender
,
209

Chicago Herald-American
,
187
,
223
,
270

Chicago Nurses Committee,
215

Chicago Tribune
,
403

Children, as physical therapy patients,
42
–
43

Children's Bureau (federal),
150
,
324

Chiropractic,
57
,
94
,
165
,
169
,
170
,
172
,
215
,
263
,
277
,
303

Chown, Bruce,
58
–
59
,
102

Church, Harvey,
188

Chuter, Charles

The Kenny Concept
and,
268
–
269

as Kenny's political friend,
6

Kenny's success and,
20
–
21

lottery and,
25
n
18

retirement of,
345

Sister Kenny
and,
258
,
281

Cilento, Raphael

as assessor of Kenny's treatments,
8
,
9

Cohn's skepticism of,
410

on sponsorship of Kenny,
15
–
16

view of Kenny,
41
–
42

Citizen's Polio Research League,
319
–
321
,
325

Civil rights, Kenny Foundation attention to,
360

Clark, William Stratton,
121

Clarke, Floyd,
95

Clayton, William,
195

Clinical observations, to assess therapies,
xvii
,
59
,
61
,
72
,
86
,
96
,
100
,
197
,
265

Clinical research, as amorphous field,
85

Clinical trials

as gendered project,
xii

Kenny method and,
xii
,
7
,
61
,
98
–
99
,
119
,
408
,
422

Kenny's suspicion of,
xix
,
264

NFIP sponsorship of,
376
,
397
n
258
,
402

to test polio therapies,
15
,
39
,
45
,
86
,
159
,
380

Cobb, Stanley,
187
,
216

Cohn, Victor,
362
,
407
–
410
,
415
–
417
,
421
,
423

Cold War

celebrity politics in,
364
–
366

global feminism and,
366
–
368

Kenny's network during,
342

Cole, Wallace

article on Kenny's work,
53
–
55

early skepticism of,
95
–
96

funding request of,
20

Institute board and,
197

on patient participation,
163

study of Kenny's work,
23

Colliers
,
119

Committee on Information (NFIP),
54
,
57
,
63

Committee on Research for the Prevention and Treatment of After-Effects (NFIP),
67

Community Chest campaign,
305

Compere, Edward Lyon,
68
–
70
,
104
,
198
,
203

Conferences

First International Poliomyelitis Conference,
316
–
319
,
323

Kenny's last attendance,
372
–
374