Social Work in the Health Field
Subtitle: A Care Perspective
Contributors: Lois Anne Fort, Phd Cowles (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780789009135
Subjects: Nursing & Ancillary Services; Sociology; Medical; Social Work; General; Allied Health Services - General; 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).