Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Tourette’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges.
The Freud Museum, London [podcasts]
The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938.
That Fierce Edge: Sibling Conflict and Politics in Georgian England
Using a combination of brief case studies and statistical analysis of probate disputes in eighteenth-century England, this article argues for an expanded interpretation of Georgian family life—an interpretation that understands the tugs and pulls of siblinghood. In the eighteenth century, emerging ideas about social equality based on idealized siblinghood tangled with engrained family hierarchies to produce messy, constantly shifting, sibling politics.
Keeping Sight of Social Justice: 80 Years of Building CASW
Not many of you will know of the formation recently of a new professional association…. It is the professional Association of Canadian Social Workers, and its formation will perhaps be the first indication to many that the problems of inequalities and human relationship which arise from and live to burden our social structure have evolved a profession of social workers to meet them — a professions with a technique all its own, demanding rigorous training, and a code of ethics and standards to be lived up to. (Official announcement of the establishment of the Canadian Association of Social Workers).
Historical Threads in the Development of Oncology Social Work
We begin with a description of Oncology Social Work,(Association of Oncology Social Workers, 2001) and its role in helping cancer patients and their families. Next, important historical developments are reviewed: the birth of medical social work in hospitals in the early
20th Century;(I M Cannon, 1923) the medical improvements in the 1940’s in treating cancer, and the shift to a consumer oriented American Cancer Society pushing a greater role for the federal government in funding cancer research. Oncology Social Work came to full blossom in the 1970’s, a result of the physicians’ need for a member of the health care team who understood cancer, treatment, and the patient’s need to address their psychosocial needs.
Oncology Social Work is today a fully developed profession with its national organization that provides education and support to the oncology social workers’ use of multiple psychosocial interventions for cancer patients and their families
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Behind the scenes: two centuries of census-taking
National Archives Podcast. This talk takes a look at the army of civil servants, temporary clerks, registrars, enumerators and others, and the part they played in this astonishing feat of organisation once a decade.
From crime to punishment: Criminal records of our ancestors from the 18th and 19th centuries [podcast]
This podcast takes researchers through the various stages of the criminal justice system of the period and focusses on the various records created, from the commission of a crime, through the court processes and on to the records of punishment.
Concept and History of Permanency in U.S. Child Welfare
Look – normal: The colonized child of developmental science.
This article provides an analysis of the techniques, methods, materials, and discourses of child study observation to illuminate its role in the sociohistorical colonization of childhood.
Comparing premodern melancholy/mania and modern trauma: An argument in favor of historical experiences of trauma
Historians and psychiatrists have repeatedly looked to both real and imagined individuals of the past, like Achilles and Samuel Pepys, and found evidence that they were suffering from symptoms of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. The assumptions that allow such historical “diagnoses” have, however, recently been called into question by philosophers such as Ian Hacking, anthropologists like Allan Young and psychiatrists such as Patrick Bracken.
An interdisciplinary meeting
National Human Services Assembly
Executives of twelve leading national social work organizations began regular monthly meetings in 1920. Formally organized in 1923, the National Social Work Council (NSWC) held meetings and conferences until 1945 when, upon revision of its by-laws, the Council expanded its functions and became the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Melbourne conference of the Australian Council of Social Service (1966)
NAA A1501, A6546/1 | C Bottomley
Mr S D Gokhale, Assistant Secretary General of the International Conference of Social Work, for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific Region, believes many of Australia’s social and welfare services could be adapted to Asian needs. Mr Gokhale has been in Melbourne for the fourth annual conference of the Australian Council of Social Service. Mr Gokhale (right), seen at the Melbourne conference of the Australian Council of Social Service, with the Secretary-General of the Australian Red Cross, Mr L G Stubbings (centre), and member of the Parliament for Papua New Guinea, Mr Lepani Watson, a former social worker.
History of ACOSA
Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean: Tenement House Dept. of the City of New York: F.H. La Guardia, Mayor
Sophie van Senden Theis (1885-1957)
Sophie van Senden Theis (left) bringing Martha to Jessie Taft (right). Also pictured are Bobby Ueland (the adopted son of Elsa Ueland, another leading social worker) and Taft’s adopted son, Everett. Sophie was the first genuine adoption professional and researcher in the history of the United States. She was best known for her pioneering outcome study, How Foster Children Turn Out, published in 1924, in which Theis documented what had become of 910 children placed in homes by the New York State Charities Aid Association between 1898 and 1922. It was the first large-scale inquiry of its kind, became the prototype for many later outcome studies, and is still cited as a landmark in the history of adoption research.
It’s hard to know where our love is leading but let’s keep giving, okay?
Child migration [Australia, 1927]
Official proceedings of the annual meeting: 1878
Do Physical Exercise
If You’ve Had Two Sex Partners
Liverpool addresses on ethics of social work (1911)
Late marriage and birth control promote women’s participation in socialist reconstruction
Official proceedings of the annual meeting: 1874
The sun rises in the west
Jeannette Rankin, First U.S. Congresswoman
Social work
Jobs – get the facts about occupations – free classes for young men and women 16 to 25 yrs
Will You Be a Free Man or Chained
United States Army. Social Hygiene Division | Images from the History of Medicine
During the First World War, a tension developed between “social hygiene” reformers, who condemned illicit sexual behavior and emphasized education as the key to fighting venereal diseases, and more pragmatic medical officers who promoted prophylactic stations for the treatment of venereal diseases on military bases. This 1918 poster illustrates a common message promoted by social hygienists, who worked vigorously to close down red-light districts in American cities and to educate soldiers about refraining from sexual activity.