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Author Reaume, Geoffrey

Title Lyndhurst : Canada's first rehabilitation centre for people with spinal cord injuries, 1945-1998 / Geoffrey Reaume
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages : illustrations, portraits
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.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index
Notes English
Subject Lyndhurst Lodge (Toronto, Ont.) -- History
Lyndhurst Lodge (Toronto, Ont.)
Lyndhurst Lodge (Toronto, Ont.)
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Canada -- History
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Ontario -- Biography
Rehabilitation Centers -- history
Spinal Cord Injuries -- rehabilitation
Spinal Cord Injuries -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
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Canada
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Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773576476
0773576479
1282866915
9781282866911
9786612866913
6612866918