TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Salk hops'
T2 - teen health activism and the fight against polio, 1955 – 1960
AU - Mawdsley, Stephen E.
N1 - 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
PY - 2016/2/23
Y1 - 2016/2/23
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - juvenile delinquency
KW - march of dimes
KW - national foundation for infantile paralysis
KW - teens against polio
KW - United States
KW - poliomyelitis
KW - vaccination
UR - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253537
U2 - 10.1080/14780038.2016.1145393
DO - 10.1080/14780038.2016.1145393
M3 - Article
SN - 1478-0038
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Cultural and Social History
JF - Cultural and Social History
ER -
