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Lyndhurst : Canada's First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries, 1945-1998.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: LyndhurstDDC classification:
  • 362.19/74820860971
LOC classification:
  • RA645.S66
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Before Lyndhurst: Treatment of People with Spinal Cord Injuries up to 1945 -- 2. From DVA to CPA, 1945-50 -- 3. A Reputation for Rehabilitation: Lyndhurst Lodge, 1950-64 -- 4. The Longest Decade, 1964-74 -- 5. Lyndhurst on Sutherland: From Autonomy to Amalgamation, 1974-98 -- 6. Conclusion: Lyndhurst's Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Only recently have the voices of the disabled - the personal experiences of people with disabilities - been included in medical history. Lyndhurst marks an important contribution to disability and medical history by providing first-person accounts of patients, staff, and disability activists at Lyndhurst Lodge in Toronto in post-war Canada.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Before Lyndhurst: Treatment of People with Spinal Cord Injuries up to 1945 -- 2. From DVA to CPA, 1945-50 -- 3. A Reputation for Rehabilitation: Lyndhurst Lodge, 1950-64 -- 4. The Longest Decade, 1964-74 -- 5. Lyndhurst on Sutherland: From Autonomy to Amalgamation, 1974-98 -- 6. Conclusion: Lyndhurst's Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Only recently have the voices of the disabled - the personal experiences of people with disabilities - been included in medical history. Lyndhurst marks an important contribution to disability and medical history by providing first-person accounts of patients, staff, and disability activists at Lyndhurst Lodge in Toronto in post-war Canada.

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