Lyndhurst

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Lyndhurst is written by Geoffrey Reaume and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773576479 (ISBN 10) and 9780773576476 (ISBN 13).

Lyndhurst was the first facility in Canada to focus solely on people with spinal cord injuries, eventually also treating people with related disabilities, such as polio. Geoffrey Reaume details the changes in treatment of paraplegia and quadriplegia that allowed more people to survive and to return to the community, the evolution of social policies that emphasized greater inclusiveness in society for people with physical disabilities, and the role of disability activism in helping to advance these changes.