Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby interview East Bay writer, Anne Finger about her

newly released book titled Elegy for a Disease, a Personal and Cultural

History of Polio published by St. Martin Press, Oct. 31, 2006. Finger

shares her memories of growing up as a polio survivor in the 1980’s. Mixed

with these memories is a cultural history of how polio affected the

consciousness of the American public until it was largely defeated in the

U.S. by immunization.