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Lyndhurst : Canada's first rehabilitation centre for people with spinal cord injuries, 1945-1998 / Geoffrey Reaume.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reaume, Geoffrey.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 28.
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries--Patients--Rehabilitation--Canada--History.
- Spinal cord.
- Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries--Patients--Ontario--Biography.
- Lyndhurst Lodge (Toronto, Ont.)--History.
- Lyndhurst Lodge (Toronto, Ont.).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 258 p. : ill., ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86691-5
- 9786612866913
- 0-7735-7647-9
- OCLC:
- 923234285
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