Social Work in the Health Field
Subtitle: A Care Perspective
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780789060334
Subjects: Health systems & services; Social Work; Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Sociology; General; Medical Social Work; Human Services
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).