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Paraplegia, Rehabilitation and Sport at Stoke Mandeville, 1944-56

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ID10073638
AutoresJulie Anderson (0000-0003-4136-9229, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester., autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume38
Fascículo3
Páginas461-475
Data de publicação2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009403038003007
OpenAlexW2123556676
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21

This article explores the links between rehabilitation practices and the aims of successive postwar British governments between 1944 and 1956. It focuses on the work at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury where rehabilitation centred around sporting activity. While games and sport were important at the hospital, they were seen more as a means to an end outside the gates of the institution. The focus for the state was labour and the article argues that the process of rehabilitation through sport was informed by the demands of central government and the desire to reduce the economic burden of numbers of permanently disabled people

Government (linguistics · Institution · Paraplegia · Physical therapy · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Engineering · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Rehabilitation