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Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear wasoverwhelming.  Dancing in My Dreams investigatesthe disease of polio and its treatment over a long period, the scientificendeavour that led to the discovery of the poliovirus, and the early studies invirology and immunology that culminated in the production of a polio vaccine.For the first time, in a history of this disease, the voice of the poliosurvivor can also be clearly heard.  You can read or listen to an interview that Dr Kerry Highly gave to Fran Kelly on Radio National Full page review in the Sydney Morning Herald

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Kerry Highley grew up in the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly. Her first career was as a medical laboratory scientist, a profession in which she worked for many years before turning to History in 2000. In 2009 she received her PhD in the History of Medicine from the Australian National University for her thesis on the polio epidemics in Australia. While at the ANU, she tutored in Second World War studies and the History of Terrorism. Apart from polio, her research interests and writings have included aspects of the history of the Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War.

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