Part of the same material has been used in lectures given at the Sorbonne in the early months of 1918 and published by Crès & Cie. under the title of Essais de Médecine Sociale.
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTOF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN MEDICAL WORK | [vii] | |
| Part I: Medical-Social Diagnosis | ||
| I. | THE MEDICAL STANDING, DUTIES, AND EQUIPMENT OF THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT | [3] |
| II. | HISTORY-TAKING BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT | [28] |
| III. | ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT | [47] |
| IV. | MENTAL INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT | [66] |
| V. | MENTAL INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIAL ASSISTANT, CONTINUED | [96] |
| VI. | THE SOCIAL WORKER'S INVESTIGATION OF FATIGUE, REST, AND INDUSTRIAL DISEASE | [112] |
| VII. | THE SOCIAL WORKER'S BEST ALLY—NATURE'S CURE OF DISEASE | [127] |
| Part II: Social Treatment | ||
| VIII. | SAMPLES OF SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS | [151] |
| IX. | THE MOTIVE OF SOCIAL WORK | [176] |
INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN MEDICAL WORK
I
The profession of the social worker, which is the subject of this book, has developed in the United States mostly within the past twenty-five years. Probably ten thousand persons are now so employed. It is known by various titles—social worker, school nurse, home and school visitor, welfare worker, hospital social worker, probation officer—varying according to the particular institution—the hospital, the court, the factory, the school—from which it has developed. But although the use of these visitors has been developed independently by each institution, and largely without consciousness of what was going on in the others, yet the same fundamental motive power has been at work in each case. Because this is so, we shall do well, at the outset of our study of home visiting, to get a clear conception of the common trunk out of which various types of home visitor have come like branches.