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The following are excerpts from the Donald Munro Memorial Lecture delivered at the thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the American Paraplegia Society, September 4, 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Reprinted from the Journal of the American Paraplegia Society, vol 14, no. 2, April 1991, by kind permission of the American Paraplegia Society.
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Harris, P. Spinal cord injuries in the 21st century. Spinal Cord 30, 31–34 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1992.14
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1992.14