Social Work in Hospitals: A Contribution to Progressive Medicine

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Russell Sage Foundation, 1913 - 247 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 28 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
الصفحة 179 - Life itself achieves significance and value not from the esoteric things shared by the few, but from the great common experiences of the race — from the issues of birth and death, of affection satisfied and affection frustrated, from those chances and hazards of daily living that come to all men.
الصفحة 8 - At the present time what more glaring picture of charitable impotence is there than that destitute persons should constantly apply to a free dispensary for drugs which cannot benefit them if they lack the necessary food ; or that in the same illness they should go from one out-patient department, free, or even part-pay dispensary, to another without any heed being paid to their "actual condition ? To be effectual, even to be equitably administered, medical charity must act in alliance with general...
الصفحة 91 - Education and occupations of cripples, juvenile and adult. A survey of all the cripples of Cleveland. Ohio, in 1916.
الصفحة 169 - ... woman of 40; chronic arthritis of phalanges, of right hand; scoliosis; teeth almost gone; severe headaches. Takes bromo-seltzer in large quantities. Cannot understand English. Three children at school; husband a tailor. (No. 208) Young unmarried woman, and illegitimate child. Both syphilitic. II. Type Two: Patients whose social problem is not acute, but whose disease is one dangerous to others. It is a serious matter if a patient suffering from such a disease goes about without continued care...
الصفحة 89 - ... of persons accused of crime and of all inmates of penal institutions; and long-continued segregation of defective delinquents in special institutions.
الصفحة 87 - The keynote of a practical program for the management of mental defectiveness is to be found in the fact, which seems to have been proved, that those defectives...
الصفحة 1 - An interpretation of the hospital social service movement which "seeks to understand and to treat the social complications of disease by establishing a close relationship between the medical care of patients in hospitals or dispensaries and the work of those skilled in the profession of social work. It strives to bring to the institutionalized care of the sick, such personal and individual attention to the patient's social condition that his recovery may be hastened and safeguarded.
الصفحة 96 - Those able to work under ordinary conditions if trained for selected trades or processes within trades. (c) Those physically unfit for the long hours and hard conditions of competitive industry, but able to work under special, conditions, ie, a special workshop for cripples. (d) Those who are incapacitated for work other than occupation for its therapeutic value.
الصفحة 216 - ... the case of a man, forty-eight years of age, who was sent to us one day, ragged, emaciated — almost helpless without the glasses, which had been broken a few days before. His record with the public and private charities of and other cities was a very bad one. Idleness, drink, immorality, neglect of his children. The hospital found a condition of high myopia, which had been corrected only after the man had passed his twenty-fifth year — when he had thoroughly learned the lesson of idleness...

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