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Social Work; Essays on the Meeting Ground of Doctor and Social Worker

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Social Work; Essays on the Meeting Ground of Doctor and Social Worker

Richard C. Cabot

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Richard Cabot saw that a doctor could set a bone and still fail a patient whose real trouble was poverty or worry. His essays map the new meeting ground of medicine and social work, from diagnosis to the duties of the hospital's social assistant. A founding text of medical social work. Discover where healing and helping first joined hands.

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49 chapters

  1. 1Books by Richard C. Cabot
  2. 2SOCIAL WORK
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN MEDICAL WORK
  6. 6I
  7. 7II
  8. 8III
  9. 9IV
  10. 10V
  11. 11PART I Medical-Social Diagnosis
  12. 12CHAPTER I THE MEDICAL STANDING, DUTIES, AND EQUIPMENT OF THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT
  13. 13Light on the severity of illness
  14. 14Nests of contagious disease
  15. 15Hotbeds of industrial disease
  16. 16Medical outfit of the social worker
  17. 17Technical methods
  18. 18CHAPTER II HISTORY-TAKING BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT

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