To Walk Again? The Children's Sanatorium in Momin Prohod for the Rehabilitation of Children with Poliomyelitis
To Walk Again? The Children's Sanatorium in Momin Prohod for the Rehabilitation of Children with Poliomyelitis
Author(s): Kalinka AnchovaSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Health and medicine and law, Welfare services, Cold-War History
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: epidemic; poliomyelitis; Momin Prohod; children’s sanatorium; disabilities; rehabilitation
Summary/Abstract: In the Bulgarian context of child healthcare and socialist health policy, this study focuses on the Children’s Sanatorium in Momin Prohod, which was dedicated to the rehabilitation of children with long-term disabilities resulting from poliomyelitis epi-demics. Established in the early 1950s, it was the only specialized healthcare facility of its kind in Bulgaria, combining both therapeutic-rehabilitative and educational work. The sanatorium gained international recognition and even treated patients from abroad, including from countries on the other side of the ‘Iron Curtain’. Institutional-ly-focused in nature, this research is situated within the dominant medical model of the time. Chronologically, it spans the 1950s and 1960s, and is based on official doc-uments from state archives.
Journal: Балканистичен Форум
- Issue Year: 33/2024
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 86-107
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
