On the Social Frontier of Medicine : Pioneering in Medical Social Service

Black hardcovers with light tan lettering on spine. Light rubbing and wear to the edges, turns and corners. Damp ring on back board. Spine is straight, binding tight. Previous owner's ex-libris label adhered to inside front board paper. Pages are clean and appear unmarked. Light aging of pages. No dust jacket. Preface Contents Foreword PART ONE. The Background 1. A Doctor’s Message 2. The English Hospital Almoner 3. Forerunners in the United States 4. A Period of Social Awakening 5. A Physician Takes Action 6. We Βuild on Firm Foundations PART TWO. Pioneering 7. We Are “Permitted” 8. Opportunities Increase 9. We Choose Our Advisors 10. Partial Recognition 11. Seeking Our Special Role 12. Interesting the Doctors 13. A Broader Scope 14. Accepted Officially 15. A Profession Recognized 16. We Analyze Our Function 17. The Idea Becomes Widespread PART THREE. Fruits of Experience 18. A Special Privilege 19. A Socially Constructive Disease 20. Hazards for the Industrial Worker 21. Attitudes Change 22.Its What’s Left That Counts 23. The Patient Teaches 24. Medicine and Some Social Trends 25. Facing New Frontiers Notes and References Index If, today, the hospital patient gets help with his personal troubles, it is owing in large measure to the pioneer work of Dr. Richard Cabot and Ida Cannon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the turn of the century, social service as an aid to the scientific medical care of patients in hospitals and clinics was a novel—and often shocking—idea to doctors and hospital administrators. In this book Cannon tells how medical social work started and how it has grown to its present professional status in the forty-five years since Dr. Cabot placed the first social worker in the Out Patient Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and discusses the broad social implications of medical care today.