'Turned into taxpayers': Paraplegia, rehabilitation and sport at stoke Mandeville, 1944-56

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 461-475

  Anderson, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248057469     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009403038003007     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Apparently this was the main aim of Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Director of the Spinal Unit. Joan Scruton, Stoke Mandeville: Road to the Paralympics (Aylesbury 1998), 19
2. R.N. Houlding, 'Rehabilitation of Injured Air Crews in Great Britain' in William Brown Doherty and Dagobert D. Runes (eds), Rehabilitation of the War Injured: A Symposium (London 1945), 100
3. S.C. Rexford-Welch, The RAF Medical Services, vol. 1 (London 1954), 314
4. Harold Balme, The Unfit Made Fit: Britain Advances (London 1943), 9
5. The Manchester Guardian, 2 October 1944
6. These people included Colin Hodgkinson who, like Douglas Bader, flew aircraft despite being a double-leg amputee, and Air Commodore Huskinson, who was blinded in an air raid and continued to work in the RAF. See Colin Hodgkinson, Best Foot Forward (London 1957)
7. and P. Huskinson, Vision Ahead (London 1949)
8. R.O. Ward, 'The Management of the Bladder in Spinal Injuries' in Hamilton Bailey (ed.), Surgery of Modern Warfare (Edinburgh 1944), 661
9. The Cord, 17, 1 (Winter 1964/65), 40
10. Ludwig Guttmann, 'Victory over Paraplegia' in Ian Fraser (ed.), Conquest of Disability (London 1956), 65
11. Susan Goodman, Spirit of Stoke Mandeville (London 1986), 143
12. Ludwig Guttmann, 'Rehabilitation after Injuries' in Olive Guthrie Smith (ed.), Rehabilitation, Re-education and Remedial Exercises (London 1949), 445
13. Ludwig Guttmann, 'The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Patients with Injuries of the Spinal Cord' in Zachary Cope (ed.), History of the Second World War (London 1953), 499
14. Guttmann, 'Victory Over Paraplegia', op. cit., 60
15. The Cord, 1, 1 (Autumn 1947), 19
16. The Cord, 1, 2 ( Winter 1948), 7
17. That is not to say, however, that training centres were wholly the responsibility of the government. Other private charitable schemes were established. See William Beveridge, Voluntary Action: A Report on the Methods of Social Advance (London 1948)
18. Graham Wooton, The Official History of the British Legion (London 1956), 269
19. Alfred Morris and Arthur Butler, No Feet to Drag (London 1972), 56
20. Ministry of Labour and National Service, Third Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons, 1958
21. J.L. Edwards, 'Remploy', International Labour Review, 77, 1958
22. The Cord, 2, 2 (Winter 1949), 7
23. Ministry of Labour and National Service, Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons, 1946
24. John Surtees, Chaseley: A Home from Home (Eastbourne 1997), 15
25. The Manchester Guardian (14 July 1945)
26. Ministry of Labour and National Service, Second Report of the Standing Committee of Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons, 1949
27. The Cord, 3, 1 (Autumn 1949), 15-16
28. Bucks Herald (6 August 1948)
29. Report by Norah Hill on her visit to Stoke Mandeville, 25 October 1948 in PRO LAB 18/469
30. Ministry of Labour and National Service, Second Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons, 1949
31. The Cord, 3, 4 (Summer 1950), 9-10
32. Joan Scruton, 'Sir Ludwig Guttmann: Creator of a World Sports Movement for the Paralysed and Other Disabled', Paraplegia, 17 (1979), 52. Emphasis in the original