"Możesz kląć, możesz płakać, ale wstań i idź dalej"… Ośrodki rehabilitacyjne dla osób niepełnosprawnych po polio w Polsce po II wojnie światowej jako przestrzeń życia codziennego
In: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de cultura, Heft 10(1), S. 113-124
ISSN: 2391-4432
"You can curse, you can cry, but get up and go on..."Rehabilitation centres for people with disabilities resulting from polio in Poland after World War II as an everyday life space
The article focuses on selected issues of everyday life of disabled people with polio-related impairments who were treated and rehabilitated in closed rehabilitation facilities. A network of such institutions was established in Poland as a response to polio epidemics outbreak in the early 1950s. The article analyzes the period between the early 1950s and late 1960s. The text highlights the specificity of daily life at these facilities. In particular, I consider interpersonal relations among members of these various communities. In terms of source material, the study is based primarily on autobiographical oral histories collected and recorded by the author.
Keywords: history of disability, Poland, rehabilitation, healthcare facilities, 1945–1989