1st Edition

Social Work in Medical Care

By Zofia Butrym Copyright 1967
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

Medical social work is one of the longest established branches of social work. Its special problems—concerned with illness and disability, and the establishment of working relationships with the medical profession, with its high social and scientific prestige—are also of interest to social work as a whole. First published in 1967, Social Work in Medical Care explores the historical development... Read more

1. The nature of medical social work  2. Medical social work in the hospital  3. Medical social work in the community 4. Other aspects of medical social work 5. Guide to the literature

Biography

Zofia Butrym (1927–2017) was a Polish sociologist, interested in the interdisciplinary sociology of health, illness, and medicine.