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On health deviation and rehabilitation in spinal paraplegia and tetraplegia

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The Harben Lecture Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 1976. Reprinted with permission from Community Health 8, 186-208.

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Guttmann, L. On health deviation and rehabilitation in spinal paraplegia and tetraplegia. Spinal Cord 17, 96–121 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1979.24

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