The article explores how the development of medical technologies helps to change our social perception of people with disabilities. It analyzes the case of a program meant to attenuate the problems caused by work accidents, introduced at Madrid's Instituto de Reeducación Profesional de Inválidos del Trabajo in the 1920s. The specific focus is on the program's initiative in the arena of Traumatology and Orthopedics, aimed at the rehabilitation of disabled workers. The text underscores how these efforts helped to strengthen an "individual model" of disability and to shape the image conveyed to society about what could be expected of a person with certain physical disabilities.
disabilities; occupational health; occupational medicine; traumatology and orthopedics; Spain
