The Broken Boy (eBook)

Patrick Cockburn (Autor)

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2022
350 Seiten
Or Books (Verlag)
978-1-68219-291-7 (ISBN)

Infos

It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. Cockburn caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital where, alone for the first time in his life, he was kept in isolation. 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, affecting 50,000 people. This terrible disease always behaved strangely, attacking the middle classes rather than the poor, children rather than adults, and striking fear everywhere.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: 1950s Ireland • 1956 • 1956 polio epidemic in cork • biographies and autobiographies • Childhood Diseases • Cork • cork epidemic • Cork, Ireland • Coronavirus • Covid-19 • deadly viruses • Epidemics • epidemiology • growing up in Ireland • Infectious Diseases • Ireland • Irish authors • Irish childhood • Isolation • lockdown • mass vaccinations • Memoir • middle class • middle-class families • Pandemic • Pandemics and Epidemics • Polio • polio epidemic • Poliomyelitis • quarantine • radical families • vaccinations • Vaccine
• ISBN-10: 1-68219-291-1 / 1682192911
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68219-291-7 / 9781682192917