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The original meaning of the term “rehabilitation” in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was “to restore… former privileges, rank and possesions” or “to replace in a former state”. The term has had a long history. From Latin, it entered French, in which it still retains its original narrow legal meaning; it has no medical connotation. It then passed into Scots, because Scottish law was much influenced by French, and then into English. Although the pioneers of rehabilitation medicine between the two world wars never accepted the narrow definition, since they were concerned principally with the longer-term psychosocial consequences of war injuries or of chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, part of the appeal of rehabilitation has been and remains that it is analogous to a form of treatment, with established methods and a clear-cut goal-resettlement of ordinary society.
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Wing, J.K. (1989). The Nature of Rehabilitation in Psychiatry. In: Hippius, H., Lauter, H., Ploog, D., Bieber, H., van Hout, L. (eds) Rehabilitation in der Psychiatrie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72705-4_2
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