This volume represents one of the issues of the New York Academy of Medicine Committee on Medicine and the Changing Order. It is said that the contents of the volume show, “that the practice of Medicine is changing from a private pursuit to a social obligation.” There is a preface by Franklin B. Kirkbride. Then the following papers: The Doctor Himself by James Alexander Miller; Psychosomatic Medicine by Louis Hamman; Medical Social Work by Mary Antoinette Cannon and Harriet N. Bartlett; Psychiatric Social Work by Winifred W. Arrington; Rehabilitation and Convalescence by Howard A. Rusk; and Chronic Diseases by Ernst P. Boas.