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Nava Blum, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Nava Blum is with the School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Nava Blum, PhD, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail: navablum@hotmail.com).

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HOWARD ARCHIBALD RUSK, MD, is generally recognized as the "father of comprehensive rehabilitation." In comprehensive rehabilitation, those suffering disabilities that result from illness, injury, or congenital defect are given therapy and training designed to help them to live and work in the community to the best of their abilities. Rusk initially developed this field as a contribution to military medicine during World War II and later broadened it in application to the civilian population. The excerpts reprinted here were taken from his engaging and often humorous autobiography in which he relates the many adventures involved in his life’s work.

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