Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction: social work services in health care : the challenges -- Early medicine and the social service services -- American medicine and the emergence of the social work profession -- Mount Sinai medicine and the women who socialized the institution -- Social work activist-leaders : the making of a social work department -- Social work's past shapes the present -- Social work research in health care : studies that affect practice -- Community medicine and the social work connection -- The globalization of social work services in social-health care -- Medicine and social work : the social-health challenge.