'Salk hops' : teen health activism and the fight against polio, 1955 – 1960

Mawdsley, Stephen E. (2016) 'Salk hops' : teen health activism and the fight against polio, 1955 – 1960. Cultural and Social History. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1478-0038 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2016.1145393)

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Abstract

In the late 1950s, a health charity, known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes), organized American teens into volunteer divisions to fight polio, as well as tame adult anxieties surrounding juvenile delinquency. The alliance that developed permitted the NFIP to increase its influence and revenue, while granting teens an opportunity to assert their cultural power and challenge negative stereotypes. Although the NFIP nurtured and at times dominated the relationship, young volunteers joined for their own reasons and shaped the program to suit their own aspirations and interests.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	56614
  Dates:	Date Event 23 February 2016 Published 5 October 2015 Accepted
  Notes:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural and Social History on 23/02/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14780038.2016.1145393
  Subjects:	History United States, Canada, Latin America
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS)
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	07 Jun 2016 09:07
  Last modified:	08 Apr 2024 23:02
  Related URLs:	Related item http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56614