Full Description
Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare. The book introduces a number of philosophers, social workers and social administrators, concentrating on problems in describing a general philosophical orientation to social work, what it means to understand another person, and to problems in describing and justifying social work and social welfare activity. The essays collected contribute to discussion of a wide range of welfare issues, principally that of personal and social welfare, the moral justification of welfare provision, and conceptions of community.
Contents
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Right to Welfare 2. The Concept of Welfare 3. The Good of Man 4. Alienation and Self-Realization 5. Human Rights, Real and Supposed 6. Welfare State and Welfare Society 7. Respect for Persons and Public Morality 8. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity 9. Who is my Stranger? 10. The Concept of Community 11. The Function of Social Work in Society 12. The Art and Science of Helping 13. Knowing by Living Through 14. On Not Being Judgmental Bibliography
