Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled:
- A History of Health Problems
- Poliomyelitis
- The Response to the Disease and Treatment
- Debates about FDR's Health
- The 1944 Campaign
- April 12, 1945
- Health and FDR's Legacy
- References
- A History of Health Problems
- Poliomyelitis
- The Response to the Disease and Treatment
- Debates about FDR's Health
- The 1944 Campaign
- April 12, 1945
- Health and FDR's Legacy
- References
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Editors | William D. Pederson |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1444395181 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1444330168 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 25 2011 |
Publication series
| Name | Blackwell Companions to American History |
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Arts and Humanities
Keywords
- Debates about FDR's health - his health, an issue throughout his reemergence on the political stage
- Disease, impacting the entire Roosevelt family - Eleanor Roosevelt assuming the role of caretaker, placing considerable strain on her
- Health problems in childbirth, his mother Sara Roosevelt - being given pain-killing chloroform, with young Franklin, constantly battling illnesses
- Physical and psychological health - Roosevelt's extraordinary resolve in the face of a debilitating ailment, earning for him awe and appreciation
- Poliomyelitis, defining event in Roosevelt's life - forcing, in his prime, to take a seven-year hiatus from politics, spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair
- Roosevelt's health, not helped by the fact - continually ignoring physicians' advice to cut back on smoking and drinking
- Roosevelt's health, raising questions - some of them still unanswered
- Roosevelt's paralysis progression to his trunk, hands, parts of his face - uncertainty as to why Roosevelt was stricken with polio as an adult
- Roosevelt, both psychologically and emotionally - experience of a wedding, as a traumatic event
- Scholars, labeling Roosevelt's manipulation of the press "sophisticated" - masking his disability with props as a cape, prince-nez glasses, and cigarette holder