Richard Verville

Broschiertes Buch

War, Politics, and Philanthropy

The History of Rehabilitation Medicine

Beschreibung

This book describes the development of this remarkable field of medical care from its inception in WWI and WWII, responding to the need for care and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, disabled veterans, and members of the workforce, through its dramatic expansion during the 1980s, as stimulated by the Medicare program.

Autor

Richard Verville

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845942
• ISBN-10: 0761845941
• Artikelnr.: 27258220

Rezensionen

An absolutely brilliant compendium of history, medicine, politics, leadership and compassion. It adds great value to living with a disability in America today. -- John Kemp, winner of the prestigious Betts Award for leadership in disability Verille provides an excellent account of the confluences that brought rehabilitation medicine into the forefront during the last century, and of the specialty's relevance to the 21st century... This book tells a story that is not necessarily based on chance or vision, but rather on the serendipitous nature of history, along with a willingness to risk and collaborate. Those in medicine and allied health professions will find it an account well worth reading. Recommended. CHOICE, April 2010 In my opinion,

no book - even in the future - could be more comprehensive than this about the development of the specialty of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation?Richard Verville has written a book that will be the significant and accurate history of the growth of this innovative and much needed (though frequently ignored) field of medicine... -- Henry Betts, M.D., past president and chair of the Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, past president of the American Congress of Reh In my opinion, no book - even in the future - could be more comprehensive than this about the development of the specialty of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation...Richard Verville has written a book that will be the significant and accurate history of the growth of this innovative and much needed (though frequently ignored) field of medicine. -- Henry Betts, M.D., past president and chair of the Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, past president of the American Congress of Reh