@misc{10481/76029,
year = {2012},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/76029},
abstract = {The organizations set up to cope with polio in the years of epidemic outbreaks
in Europe constitute an interesting focus in historiography as an example of contemporary
patients’ associations and mutual aid groups. The main aim of this paper is to reconstruct and
analyse the principal highlights in the birth and development of the British Polio Fellowship
(BPF) and its historical meaning in the history of polio associationism. The Infantile Paralysis
Fellowship (now BPF) was founded in 1939 and, since then, has played an important role in
the development of services for disabled people. It was founded as an organization of disabled
people, not an organization for disabled people and so has always been an authentic voice
of polio-disabled people. Achievements during the past seventy years have included the development
of employment for disabled people, improvements in financial benefits, provision
of better access, provision of holidays, the creation of opportunities for respirator-dependent
people to live in their own homes, and the development of disability sport.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {British Polio Fellowship},
keywords = {Infantile Paralysis Fellowship},
keywords = {Disability},
keywords = {Great Britain},
keywords = {20th century},
keywords = {Asociación británica contra la polio},
keywords = {Asociación contra la parálisis infantil},
keywords = {Discapacidad},
keywords = {Gran Bretaña},
keywords = {Siglo XX},
title = {The British Polio Fellowship: its contribution to the development of inclusivity for disabled people},
author = {North, Barry},
}