Author: Hugman, Richard.
Title: Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions.
Description: Basingstoke Macmillan Press, 1998. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 246 pp. Changes in ideas about social welfare require caring professions to adapt practices in ways that challenge underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focuses on nursing, remedial therapy and social work to examine core social values expressed through policy. Explores the implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare, and raises questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services. Richard Hugman is professor of social work, Curtin University, Perth. ISBN: 033364574X

Keywords: health, therapy, caregiving, society, social welfare 033364574X


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