AOTA

Virginia A. M. Quiroga, PhD
Foreword by Robert K. Bing

Ever since the occupational therapy profession emerged in the 1910s, it has had toexplain itself to the world of medicine andto the public. The word therapy seems to have been understood easily; the word occupation has been more troublesome. In the early part of the 20th century, with its new focus on science and medicine, many interpreted it to mean "vocational." But to the early occupational therapists it meant more than that. They took a holistic approach to health care, believing that, to achieve good health, a patient had to engage the body, mind, and spirit in the process of healing.

For occupational therapists, today's world parallels that of a century ago. By studying the legacy of experience left by the profession's founders and immediate successors, readers can learn about their creativeness under dire conditions, which produced concepts and ideas that can enlighten us today. This book offers substantial knowledge and inspiration that enhances our competence, understanding, and courage.

Contents
Part I. The Rise of Occupational Therapy
Chapter 1. "The Jane Addams of Occupational Therapy": Eleanor Clarke Slagle and Women's Work in the Age of Reform
Chapter 2. Psychiatry: The Medical Birthplace of Occupational Theray
Chapter 3. Nurses for Invalid Occupations: Susan E. Tracy and the Expansion of Occupational Therapy
Chapter 4. A Patient at Work Is a Patient Half Cured: Herbert James Hall, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Early Occupational Therapy Theory
Chapter 5. Education of "the Handicapped": Occupational Therapy and Physical Rehabilitation Before World War I

Part II. World War I and Occupational Therapy
Chapter 6. "No More Cripples": The Reconstruction Movement
Chapter 7. "Do Your Bit for the Boys": Occupational Therapy's Response to the Call for Service

Part III. Stabilization and Standardization in the 1920s
Chapter 8. Professional Culture and Education in Occupational Therapy in the 1920s
Chapter 9. Men, Medical Identity, and Survival in the 1920s

Part IV. Seeing Is Believing: Exhibitions and Photographs

978-1-56900-025-0, 290 pages, 1995