Richard Clarke Cabot
Richard Clarke Cabot | |
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Born | |
Died | May 7, 1939 | (aged 70)
Alma mater | Harvard University, A.B. summa cum laude, 1889; M.D., 1892[1] |
Known for | clinical hematology, pioneer in social work; discovered cabot rings |
Spouse |
Ella Lyman (m. 1894; died 1934) |
Parent(s) | James Elliot Cabot and Elizabeth (Dwight) Cabot |
Relatives | The Cabot family |
Richard Clarke Cabot (May 21, 1868 – May 7, 1939) was an American physician who advanced clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods, and was a pioneer in social work.
Early life and education
Richard Clarke Cabot was born May 21, 1868, in Brookline, Massachusetts, one of five sons of James Elliot Cabot and Elizabeth (Dwight) Cabot.[1] James Cabot was a philosopher and Harvard University professor who also trained as a lawyer and biographer, and was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Professional career
Cabot studied philosophy at
He changed the way that the outpatient department was run, believing that economic, social, family and psychological conditions underpinned many of the conditions that patients presented with. He envisaged that social workers would work in a complementary relationship with doctors, the former concentrating on physiological health, and the latter on social health. In addition to this, he saw that social work could improve medicine by providing a critical perspective on it while working alongside it in an organisational setting. In 1905 Cabot created one of the first positions of professional
In 1917 Cabot took up a position in the Medical Reserve Corps for a year. He returned briefly to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1918 and then left to take up the position of chair at Harvard's Department of Social Ethics in 1919. At this time, the hospital agreed to pay the wages of social workers, as up to this point, Cabot had paid the wages of thirteen social workers over the last 12 years.[2] He went on to write about his experiences in his book Social Work[5]
He is also credited with discovering
Cabot established a tradition of teaching conferences at
Family and personal life
Cabot's paternal grandfather, Samuel Cabot Jr., became a sailor at age 19 and married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of a successful Boston trader. Samuel Cabot III later took over the running of the firm.
Richard married
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939. Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot : an inventory," Harvard University archives. Accessed Jan. 5, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Gehlert, S. in Gehlert, S. and T.A. Browne (2006). Chapter Two: The Conceptual Underpinnings of social work in health care. Handbook of Health Social Work. New Jersey:WILEY
- ^ Beder, J. (2006) Hospital Social Work: The interface of medicine and caring. Routledge: New York
- ^ Baraclough, J. (2004-09-23). Cummins, Anne Emily (1869–1936), social worker. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 3 Jan. 2018, see link
- ^ Cabot, R.C. (1919). Social Work, webpage: Google-Books-dsC.
- ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0.
Further reading
- Burton J. Hendrick (1914). "Teamwork in Healing the Sick," The World's Work, Vol. 27.
- Laurie O'Brien (1985). "'A Bold Plunge into the Sea of Values': The Career of Dr. Richard Cabot," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4.
- Christopher Crenner (2005). Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot, The Johns Hopkins University Press.