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Appraisal
We realize that the cost of adequate treatment and muscle training is prohibitive to many victims of the disease. We are convinced, however, that the treatment is justified in plain dollars and cents. Therefore, we believe that every polio should receive the best treatment medical science provides. We further believe that the world should be made a better place, architecturally, mechanically, economically, and socially, for the handicapped to live in....
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Title: Appraisal
Creator: n/a
Date: July 1933
Format: Article
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.3
Keywords: Accessibility; Advocacy; Architecture; Assistive Technology; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Fundraising; Georgia; Government; Health & Medicine; Identity; Independent Living; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; New Deal; Physical Disability; Physical Therapy; Policy; Polio; Prejudice; Public Health; Public Relations; Rehabilitation; Social Welfare & Communities; Technology & Equipment; Warm Springs Foundation; Wheelchair
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Physical Environment; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America