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Community Service Society Collection

Nicholas W., 52. Twenty years ago he lost a leg and for eighteen years worked on a canal boat with a very poor substitute for an artificial leg. His eyesight failed and he could no longer work with safety. Last fall he was sitting in Battery Park one day, with nothing to do and no prospect of anything to do, when someone told him of the Toy Shop. He immediately walked all the way to 50th Street to apply for work. He began work the next morning and has been in the shop since, and, although without experience, he is one of the best painters in the shop. He has no family or friends who can help him.

Down to the crossroads: civil rights, black power, and the Meredith march

The business of getting high: head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the marijuana legalization movement

Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in ethnographic and early census materials

Michael Lipsky: Street level bureaucrats and discretionary power (1969)

The Utica crib: Biography of an unknown barbarous object.

During the latter half of the 19th century, a device known popularly as the “Utica crib” became widely used in asylums and state hospitals across North America.

Gender and fertility within the free churches in the Sundsvall region, Sweden, 1860–1921

The origins and professionalization of cognitive psychotherapy in Argentina.

Social Work History Network

Penn School of Social Policy and Practice

School of Social Work faculty after presentation of special citation to Dr. Jessie Taft (1959)

Psychiatric Penguins: Writing on psychiatry for Penguin Books, c.1950-c.1980

Britain: The Psychology of War

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The Paranoid Style Revisited: Pseudo-Conservatism in the 21st Century

Abraham Flexner, “Is Social Work a Profession?” (1915)

Abraham Flexner, a well-known champion of reform in medical education, was also a keen observer of the social work profession.

Dr. Ann Hartman: Family therapy, ecomaps and genograms

History of Social Work

Report of the Inaugural Conference (1964)

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The New Zealand Association of Social Workers was formally inaugurated in 1964 at the Auckland Inaugural Conference.

The Vestiges of the U.S. Occupation and the Redefining of the Japanese Woman

The German student movement and the literary imagination: transnational memories of protest and dissent

Motherhood and the Politics of Family Decisions in Early Modern Italy

The early history of meta-analysis

Florence Goodenough and child study: The question of mothers as researchers.

Prison and the history of the family

Freeman’s transorbital lobotomy as an anomaly: A material culture examination of surgical instruments and operative spaces.

In 1946, Walter Freeman introduced the transorbital ice pick lobotomy. Touted as a procedure that could be learned and subsequently performed by psychiatrists outside of the operating room, the technique was quickly criticized by neurosurgeons.