Education through cinema. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's polio on the movies (I): Warm Springs (2005)

Abstract

This paper, in accordance with educational purposes, analyzes acute paralytic poliomyelitis, its evolution and the rehabilitation of its sequels. All these aspects of the disease are reflected in the film Warm Springs, through the figure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his life between 1921 and 1928. Clinical, psychological, epidemiological, rehabilitative, family and social aspects of polio infection are examined.

Keywords

• poliomielitis espinal
• franklin d. roosevelt
• warm springs
• rehabilitación de la polio
• película para educación sanitaria
• 1921-1928.