Rehabilitation research on disability: New horizons.

This paper presents an overview of research on disability, and integrates rehabilitation 
research with the mainstream of scientific activity. Research on disability is 
an applied science which uses the general tools of scientific method 
in solving specific problems. Research on disability embraces a wide variety 
of physical, intellectual, and emotional conditions. The psychological aspects of physical 
disabilities are especially stressed in the adaptation to lost functions. Examples 
of research are given from spinal cord injury, end-stage renal disease, 
facial disfigurement, and cancer of the larynx. 