A Study of the Socio-Economic Adjustment of Post-hospitalized Tuberculous Patients as Seen in the Cases of Ten Veterans at the New York Regional Office, Veterans Administration, Social Service Unit
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a devastating disease to the patient, the family, the community, and to society as a whole. Within the last few centuries has come the realization that something can be done to alleviate some of the sufferings and losses due to this sickness, and the need for society to recognize its responsibility in this area. This dissertation is concerned with the social and economic adjustment of men who have been hospitalized with the disease.Background of the Study. It would be unsound to discuss merely one illness without shewing what sickness itself means to society. Disease is traumatic to the patient, his family, and society. It is a threat to security and interferes with progress. Sickness incapacitates the person for, at least, a temporary period of time. There is a period, also, of recuperation, before the patient is again able to perform up to his former capacity, and that is not always possible or recommended.
Subject Area
Social work|Social research|Social studies education|Individual & family studies
Recommended Citation
Kelleher, Ruth Devine, "A Study of the Socio-Economic Adjustment of Post-hospitalized Tuberculous Patients as Seen in the Cases of Ten Veterans at the New York Regional Office, Veterans Administration, Social Service Unit" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30725062.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30725062
