Out this week is Sister Kenny's fast-moving, stormy autobiography, And They Shall Walk (Dodd, Mead; $3), in which the Australian nurse describes her 30-year struggle to get her treatment for poliomyelitis accepted. On doctors' desks at the same time are two research reports claiming that Sister Kenny's understanding of poliomyelitis is all wrong. No one now denies that Sister Kenny is good with her hands (in Minneapolis, where formerly about 85% of polio sufferers were left with paralysis, the Kenny method now makes all but 20% as good as new), but her critics insist that she does not really know how...
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