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Social Wolk In Relief And Rehabilitation After Wars, At Home Aid Abroad, Walter A. Friedlander
Social Wolk In Relief And Rehabilitation After Wars, At Home Aid Abroad, Walter A. Friedlander
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
In the United States after the wars of the 19th. century, particularly after the Civil War, no professional social workers existed who could have cared for the wounded soldiers and civilians or for the disabled veterans. But in Europe, during the war of France and Italy against Austria, in 1859, the foundation of some services for the wounded soldiers of the three involved nations were laid by a Swiss banker, Henry Dunant of Geneva who arrived by accident on the evening of the bloody battle in Solferino (Italy) and started to help bandaging some of the bleeding victims of this …