Disabled Soldiers Quote by 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

“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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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