Lyndhurst
Canada's First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries, 1945-1998
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2007
- Category
- History, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532120
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $45.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773576476
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Lyndhurst was the first facility in Canada to focus solely on people with spinal cord injuries, eventually also treating people with related disabilities, such as polio. Geoffrey Reaume details the changes in treatment of paraplegia and quadriplegia that allowed more people to survive and to return to the community, the evolution of social policies that emphasized greater inclusiveness in society for people with physical disabilities, and the role of disability activism in helping to advance these changes.
About the author
Geoffrey Reaume is assistant professor, critical disability studies, York University, and the author of Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940.
