scholarly journals Should the Social Service Departments in Children's Hospitals be Developed Into Departments for the Prevention of Disease?

1922 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 932-940
Author(s):  
Howard Childs Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Children's Hospitals ◽  
Children’S Hospitals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Departments

scholarly journals Syphilis in London’s Children’s Hospitals (1852 - 1921)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Lee ◽  
Thomas J. Siek ◽  
Cara S. Hirst
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Congenital Syphilis ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
World War One ◽  
Children's Hospitals ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Children’S Hospitals ◽  
The Social

Establishing the palaeoepidemiology of diseases in children is a difficult task due to limited written and physical evidence. Historic admissions records from children’s hospitals can provide large data sets allowing insights into this area, rather than just case studies which are what most commonly appear within the palaeopathological literature. An oft ignored aspect of childhood illness is venereal disease due to the social taboo surrounding this topic. This study aimed to investigate the extent of syphilis within Victorian and Edwardian London’s children’s hospitals and explore the socioeconomic context this disease was occurring within. This was achieved by examining digitised hospital admissions data covering the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries for three children’s hospitals. These records revealed a significant spike in admissions for congenital syphilis following World War One. This was likely due to the return of troops from the warfront who had been infected whilst in mainland Europe. It was also found that the upper levels of the working classes accounted for the majority of the admissions, despite these institutions being created to aid the children from the lowest socioeconomic groups. Finally, this paper highlights the need for researchers to also consider the possibility of children having acquired syphilis rather than congenital syphilis when examining such records

Infighting in San Francisco: Anthropology in Family Court

1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Barbara Joans
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
Cultural Misunderstanding

Eighteen years ago I represented six Bannock-Shoshoni women in court. I was their expert witness and convinced the presiding judge that the women had not committed fraud, had not lied to the social service departments and had not taken rent money on bad faith. They had misunderstood the language and the directions given to them by the Pocatello, Idaho agencies, an essentially cultural misunderstanding. We went to court and won all six of our cases. The women were cleared of even the hint of misconduct and I published the account in Practicing Anthropology (Problems in Pocatello: A Study in Linguistic Misunderstanding. Vol. 6, No. 3&4 1984).

Knowledge and Perceptions of the Social Services

1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ann Glampson ◽  
Bryan Glastonbury ◽  
David Fruin
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Client ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Service Departments

ABSTRACTThis article reports on an attempt to discover the attitudes of members of the public towards a range of personal and family problems, all of which could be seen as relevant to the work of social service departments. The data are drawn from two samples: one of current users of a social services department and the other from the general public.Our outline findings show that although users seem more aware of the potential of social service departments than other members of the community, there is nevertheless substantial confusion and disagreement over appropriate services for different problem situations. It was equally clear that for several quite important problems many people saw voluntary or neighbourhood involvement as more relevant than intervention by a statutory agency. On the basis of these findings we discuss the following suggestions for social service departments. Firstly, education programmes are necessary to improve general knowledge about the personal social services, but structured in such a way as to avoid stimulating demand which cannot be met – we are critical of the Seebohm report's analogy of personal social services with commerce. Secondly, more attention needs to be paid to relationships between social workers and other professionals who may be intermediaries in contacts between the potential client and the agency. Thirdly, social service departments should assess their own priorities with greater sensitivity towards the community viewpoint, since we found not only a significant willingness for people to get involved in social service but a keenness to participate in policy making.

The Social Service of Science

1901 ◽  
Vol 51 (1325supp) ◽  
pp. 21239-21241
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
The Social

Which role does homeopathy play in the project “Integrative Pediatrics” at three children's hospitals in Germany?

2017 ◽  
Vol 262 (02) ◽  
pp. 2-76
Author(s):  
S Kruse ◽  
A Schönauer ◽  
M Dorcsi-Ulrich ◽  
J Rosenecker
Keyword(s):  
Children's Hospitals ◽  
Children’S Hospitals
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