Books by Julie K. Silver

Wherever they are in their own journey with cancer, readers will find here a personal, practical, and powerful guide to recovery.

Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian Daniel Wilson help readers understand the sheer terror that gripped parents of young children every spring and summer during the first half of the 20th century as polio epidemics ran rampant.