SOCIAL COMPONENTS IN MEDICINE
Authors: Edward L. Bortz
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1940)

Article1 December 1940SOCIAL COMPONENTS IN MEDICINEEDWARD L. BORTZ, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDWARD L. BORTZ, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-14-6-1065 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMethods of scholarly inquiry and organized experimentation have uncovered such a mass of data bearing on man's biological and social existence that the average span of human life has been more than doubled since the 19th century. Scientific facts of importance to society are being discovered at a rate beyond the ability of society to absorb and profit by them.THE UNIT BIOLOGICALAs a biological unit man has benefited by the increasing control of diseases due to contagion and infection, nutritional deficiencies and neoplasms. Typhoid fever, smallpox, and similar infections are now uncommon, and enough is known about pneumonia,...Bibliography1. PIERSOLBORTZ GMEL: The aging process: a medical-social problem, ANN. INT. MED., 1939, xii, 964-977. Google Scholar2. WEAVER WW: Social psychiatry: community problems with psychiatric implications and community resources, Cyclopedia of Medicine, Surgery and Specialties, 1940, xii. Google Scholar3. BARTLETT HM: The participation of medical social workers in the teaching of medical students, 1939, Am. Assoc. Med. Social Workers, George Banta Publishing Co. Google Scholar4. ROBINSON GC: The patient as a person, 1939, The Commonwealth Fund, New York. Google Scholar5. BAYLEY A, Director Social Service Department, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado. ELEANOR E. COCKERILL, Director, Social Service Department, The Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. MAMIE S. KIERCE, Director, Social Service Department, Duval County Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida. ARNOLDINE LINSAY, Acting Director, Social Service Department, Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, California. HILDA MCGEE, Director, Social Service Department, City Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. OPHELIA SETTLE, Instructor, Social Work, Howard University, Washington, D. C. MARGARET A. STITES, Case Supervisor, The New York Hospital, New York, N. Y. JOSEPHINE G. TAYLOR, Director, Social Service Department, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. LENA R. WATERS, Director, Social Service Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MARGUERITE ZORIN, Director, Social Service Department, St. Luke's Hospital Clinic, San Francisco, California. CHARLES KURTZHALZ, Director, Philadelphia Health Council and Tuberculosis Committee, Philadelphia. WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT, Science Editor, The New York Times. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Read at the Cleveland meeting of the American College of Physicians April 5, 1940. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byEpidemiology, Sociology and Psychology of Health and DiseaseThe ‘sick role’ in chronic illness: Some reactions 1 December 1940Volume 14, Issue 6Page: 1065-1074KeywordsInfectious disease controlMalnutritionPneumoniaTyphoid ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1940 PDF downloadLoading ...