“After witnessing conditions of overcrowding and poor ventilation in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital in 1861, the US Civil War Sanitary Commission recommended that sick and wounded soldiers be cared for in tents and wooden shanties, structures that offered ample… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States would be accustomed to and prepared for injured soldiers coming home. Yet this is not the case. Conflicts… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that Lt. C. spent months in the Balkan bed, with one end of a pulley attached to his stump and the… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.” — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
