THOMAS RYAN has been a social worker in rural communities in North Queensland and north-east Tasmania, Australia for 18 years. Completing a Bachelor of Social Work degree with Honours in 1993, he was awarded a PhD in 2006. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

• Series Editors' Foreword Animals in the Social Work Tradition: Past and Present Social Work, Subjectivity, and the Moral World Social Work's Kindred Creatures: Biological Continuity and Moral Kinship Social Work and Respect for Individuals A Morally Inclusive Social Work Appendix: New Beginnings, Other Ends: An Inclusive Social Work Code of Ethics Bibliography Index

THOMAS RYAN has been a social worker in rural communities in North Queensland and north-east Tasmania, Australia for 18 years. Completing a Bachelor of Social Work degree with Honours in 1993, he was awarded a PhD in 2006. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

• Series Editors' Foreword Animals in the Social Work Tradition: Past and Present Social Work, Subjectivity, and the Moral World Social Work's Kindred Creatures: Biological Continuity and Moral Kinship Social Work and Respect for Individuals A Morally Inclusive Social Work Appendix: New Beginnings, Other Ends: An Inclusive Social Work Code of Ethics Bibliography Index

THOMAS RYAN has been a social worker in rural communities in North Queensland and north-east Tasmania, Australia for 18 years. Completing a Bachelor of Social Work degree with Honours in 1993, he was awarded a PhD in 2006. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

• Series Editors' Foreword Animals in the Social Work Tradition: Past and Present Social Work, Subjectivity, and the Moral World Social Work's Kindred Creatures: Biological Continuity and Moral Kinship Social Work and Respect for Individuals A Morally Inclusive Social Work Appendix: New Beginnings, Other Ends: An Inclusive Social Work Code of Ethics Bibliography Index