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On the Social Frontier of Medicine

Pioneering in Medical Social Service
  • Ida M. Cannon
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1952
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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Contents

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    Foreword

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  • PART ONE. The Background
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    1. A Doctor’s Message

    3
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    2. The English Hospital Almoner

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    3. Forerunners in the United States

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    4. A Period of Social Awakening

    34
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    5. A Physician Takes Action

    46
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    6. We Βuild on Firm Foundations

    51
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  • PART TWO. Pioneering
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    7. We Are “Permitted”

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    8. Opportunities Increase

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    9. We Choose Our Advisors

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    10. Partial Recognition

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    11. Seeking Our Special Role

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    12. Interesting the Doctors

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    13. A Broader Scope

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    14. Accepted Officially

    120
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    15. A Profession Recognized

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    16. We Analyze Our Function

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    17. The Idea Becomes Widespread

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  • PART THREE. Fruits of Experience
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    18. A Special Privilege

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    19. A Socially Constructive Disease

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    20. Hazards for the Industrial Worker

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    21. Attitudes Change

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    22.Its What’s Left That Counts

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    23. The Patient Teaches

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    24. Medicine and Some Social Trends

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    25. Facing New Frontiers

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    Notes and References

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    Index

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eBook published on:
October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674493568
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1952
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674186088
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Reprint 2014
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
273
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674493568
eBook ISBN: 9780674493568
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674186088
Keywords for this book
Medical social work.; Social Work.; Charities, Medical -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Massachusetts General Hospital. Social Service Department.; Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.
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Professional and scholarly;
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