Howard Rusk's 'A world to care for' is an excellent book. Its his autobiography, but it directly delves into the rehabilitation for war veterans and disabled. It is intsructive to read how he felt the need for such a program, how he went about getting people's attention and funding.
It is strange reading of times when there were no antibiotics, anticonvulsive drugs.
At some point, paraplegics life expectancy was less than a year. His rehabilitation program has changed that.
It is interesting reading about the early prosthetic limbs- paper made temporary ones on...
This book is not just his story, but of many other doctors who made impossible dreams like walking for paralyzed people possible and of the disabled people themselves who did great things with their motivation.
I really like the statement- "When you work with a handicapped person, you've got to think of his abilities more than his disabilities."
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