Social service and the art of healing.

  • Richard Clarke Cabot
Date:
1912
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Credit: Social service and the art of healing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    they cannot do till they recognize and the public recognizes their affinity. I What is Social Work? Philanthropy and charity are its poor but honest parents. From their point of view we may naturally approach its definition—beginning with negatives. (a) We may assume in the first place that, in the evolution of the conception of philanthropy, we have left behind the stage at which a fair sample of the morning's work was the round of visits made by the rich and kindly lady, with her basket of choice victuals, virtuously dispensed to her beneficiaries, the poor. We no longer need to expose and refute the twin delusions: That philanthropy is especially merito- rious work. That philanthropy is easy, provided our motives are good.