The Making of Rehabilitation

Focusing on the history of one medical field—rehabilitation medicine—this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that shape medical specialization, challenging traditional explanations of occupational specialization.

Glenn Gritzer is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Long Island University. Arnold Arluke is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, Boston.

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1.Introduction:The Natural Growth Model
The Market Model
Rehabilitation Medicine
2.The Bases for Specialization, 1890-1917 
Electricity: A Base for Organization 
Early Champions of Electricity 
Physicians Organize 
Enlarging the Base 
Internal Competition 
External Competition 
The Response to AMA Rejection 
3.War and the Organization of Work, 1917-1920 
The War Wounded and Occupational Conflict 
Internal Competition 
External Conflict
The Origins of the Allied Occupations 
Physical Therapy 
Occupational Therapy 
The Impact of War 
4.Foundations for a Division of Labor, 1920-1941 
Physical Therapy Physicians Between the Wars 
Professional Developments 
The Battle Against Competitors 
The Allied Occupations: Institutionalization and Subordination 
Physical Therapy 
Occupational Therapy 
5.The Rediscovery of Rehabilitation, 1941-1950 
World War II and Physical Medicine 
The Influence of "Outsiders" 
Expansion and a New Name 
Allied Occupations in the War 
Physical Therapy 
Occupational Therapy 
Early Postwar Years 
The Veterans Administration 
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service 
The Allied Occupations 
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Midcentury 
6.The Redivision of Labor, 1950-1980 
Pursuit of Autonomy 
The Rise of Physical Therapy 
Occupational Therapy's Market Mistakes 
The Fall from Power 
Marginality and Supply Problems 
Market Challenges 
EPILOGUE 
The Bases for Rigidity and Imperialism 
APPENDIXES 
A. Changes in Occupational Titles 
B. Professional Associations and Journals: Physicians 
C. Professional Associations and Journals: Allied Occupations 
NOTES 
INDEX