Social Work in the Health Field
Subtitle: A Care Perspective
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780789021182
Subjects: Family & Health; Public health & preventive medicine; Social Work; Sociology; Social Science; Medical social work
First sentence: Social work in health care began in the hospital setting in 1905 when a nurse, Garnet I. Pelton, was appointed by a physician, Richard C. Cabot, to fill the first hospital social worker position at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the Internal Medicine Clinic (Cannon, 1923, cited in Cowles, 1990:2).