Social Welfare & Social Value

By Richard Hugman
July 1998
Macmillan UK
ISBN: 033364574X paperback
ISBN: 0333645731 hardcover
256 pages
$52.50 paperback
$99.50 hardcover

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Reviews:
'This book is an excellent exploration of how developing social care policy and practice relate to social values. In particular, it examines the basis for professional values, principles and morals for social work, nursing and the remedial therapies.' - Kish Bhatti-Sinclair, British Journal of Social Work

'...an engaging and thought-provoking book that raises issues of great contemporary relevance...' - Robert Pinker, Community Care

Description:
Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

Contents:
PART ONE: THE VALUES OF SOCIAL WELFARE - Values in Policy and Practice - Values Revisited: Need, Responsibility and Citizenship - The Role of Professional Values - PART TWO: THE COMMODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE - Producing Social Welfare - Professionals as Producers - Service Users as Consumers - PART THREE: THE PROFESSIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE - Reshaping Relations in Social Welfare - The Future for Professionalism - Bibliography - Index

Author Biography:
Originally a social work practitioner, RICHARD HUGMAN has for many years worked in universities in Britain and Australia. Currently, he is Professor of Social Work at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.

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