Despite the fact that Lt. C. spent months in the Balkan…

“Rhetoric coming from outside medicine among lay rehabilitation advocates suggested that nursing could do more harm than good in the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers.…

— Beth Linker

“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission recommended that…

— Beth Linker

“Given the fact that the goal of rehabilitation was to find disabled men gainful employment, it is noteworthy that the United States did not…

— Beth Linker

“The disabled man heralded in rehabilitation propaganda literature was the “supercrip,” a man who, against all odds, surmounted his physical deficits and achieved spectacular…

— Beth Linker

“Among Walter Reed amputees, physiotherapists had a reputation for being “all chesty,” often challenging (and beating) the nurses at a game of basketball.70”

— Beth Linker

“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States would be…

— Beth Linker

“arrangement. First the soldier was to engage in “bedside occupation”—a phase necessary to “buck up” the soldiers—which would be followed by training in the…

— Beth Linker

“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.”

— Beth Linker

“After spending a couple months at Walter Reed, Kristi told a Washington Post reporter that, if someone had to get injured, she was glad…

— Beth Linker

“Putting Rubbers to the Test No one knew what to expect from the women who graduated from the physiotherapy war emergency courses once they…

— Beth Linker

“Each individual 150-by-30-foot ward had hardwood floors and walls with rounded corners, “making them easier to clean” and to keep germ free. Ventilation—another crucial…

— Beth Linker

“Another way in which physiotherapists made rubbing respectable was to mandate that the therapeutic encounter involve an element of pain.”

— Beth Linker

“Perhaps most important, orthopedic surgeons knew that female assistants would pose less of a threat to their male-dominated professional authority than male physiotherapist would.…

— Beth Linker

“the CTCA held frequent lectures that aimed to dispel the traditional assumption that men had natural, unbridled sexual passions that needed to be met…

— Beth Linker

“One such case was a local thirty-year-old seamstress, who because of childhood rickets suffered from chronic slipping of both knee caps and thus found…

— Beth Linker