Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work

by Mel Gray (Editor), StephenA.Webb (Editor)

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2010
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This agenda setting text explores a broad range of value perspectives and their impact on and contribution to social work thinking on ethics. Including new perspectives, such as Islam, and drawing on international contributors, this is essential reading for all social work students studying ethics and values.

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This agenda setting text explores a broad range of value perspectives and their impact on and contribution to social work thinking on ethics. Including new perspectives, such as Islam, and drawing on international contributors, this is essential reading for all social work students studying ethics and values.

$49.25

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 21 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0230221459
ISBN 13: 9780230221451
Book Overview: STEF AUPERS Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University, The Netherlands STEFAN BORRMANN Hochschule Landshut -- University of Applied Science, Faculty of Social Work, Germany ELAINE CONFRESS Professor and Associate Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York, USA LENA DOMINELLI Head of Social, Community and Youth Work, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, UK BRID FEATHERSTONE Dept of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford, UK PHILIP GILLIGAN Dept of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford, UK STAN HOUSTON Senior Lecturer, The School of Sociology, Social Policy& Social Work, Queen's University Belfast DICK HOUTMANS Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University, The Netherlands JIM IFE Professor of Social Work and Social Policy and Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. TERRY LOVAT Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Arts), The University of Newcastle, Australia AILA-LEENA MATTHIES University of Jyvaskyla, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Finland DONNA McAULIFFE School of Human Services, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia HALUK SOYDAN School of Social Work, University of Southern California, USA SONIA TOSCON Australian Centre for Human Rights Education, RMIT University City Campus, Australia PAUL WEBSTER Birmingham, UK RUSSELL WHITING Lecturer in Social Work, University of Sussex, UK

Author Bio

MEL GRAY is Professor of Social Work and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Advanced Study for Humanity at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is Joint Editor of Australian Social Work and is on the editorial boards for several international journals. Her interests range from creativity, morality, spirituality and theory and philosophy in social work to experiential social work education.

STEPHEN A. WEBB is Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Research Institute of Advanced Study for Humanity at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His previous publications include Thinking about Social Work, co-edited with Mel Gray, and Social Work in a Risk Society (Palgrave).