Occupational therapy : the first 30 years 1900 to 1930 / Virginia Anne Metaxas Quiroga.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- First generation of occupational therapists: a study of dual authority -- Brief background on activity treatment before the Twentieth century -- Rise of occupational therapy -- Jane Addams of occupational therapy: Eleanor Clarke Slagle and women's work in the age of reform -- Importance of Hull House -- Aspiring professional Eleanor Clarke Slagle -- Psychiatry: the medical birthplace of occupational therapy -- Young Dr. Dunton -- William Rush Dunton, Jr., at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital -- Spokesperson for the neophyte profession -- Nurses for invalid occupations: Susan E. Tracy and the expansion of occupational therapy -- Susan E. Tracy and the Adams Nervine Asylum -- Founding of the experiment station for the study of invalid occupations -- Altruistic lady or independent professional? -- Patient at work is a patient half cured: Herbert James Hall, the arts and crafts movement, and early occupational therapy theory -- Devereux workshops -- O.T. equivalents, immunities, and substitutions -- Influence of Emmanuelism -- Education of the handicapped: occupational therapy and physical rehabilitation before World War I -- Authentic self: George Edward Barton at Consolation House -- Philip King Brown and the care of patients with tuberculosis -- Susan Cox Johnson and Evelyn Lawrence Collins in New York City -- World War I and occupational therapy -- No more cripples: the reconstruction movement -- Wartime reconstruction movement -- Reconstruction aides -- Do your little bit for the boys: occupational therapy's response to the call for service -- National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy -- New York war service classes for training reconstruction aides in occupational therapy -- Elizabeth Greene Upham and Milwaukee-Downer College -- Philanthropic support and the service ethic -- Typical career tracks of the reconstruction aide generation -- Stabilization and standardization in the 1920s -- Professional culture and education in occupational therapy in the 1920s -- Professional culture: recruitment, mentoring, and networking -- Beginnings of education reform -- Minimum standards for courses of training in occupational therapy -- Men, medical identity, and survival in the 1920s -- Herbert James Hall, Horatio M. Pollack, and record keeping -- Thomas B. Kidner, rehabilitation, and tuberculosis -- Occupational therapy and the problem of commercialism -- William Rush Dunton, Jr., and the Committee on Publicity and Publication -- Everett S. Elwood and the perils of professional growth -- Seeing is believing: exhibitions and photographs -- Prewar era (photographs 11-14) -- Wartime (photographs 15-19) -- Postwar period (photographs 20-24) -- Legacy of the first generation.