RICHARD HUGMAN is Professor and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on the professions and professional ethics, including Power in Caring Professions (1991), Ethical Issues in Social Work (edited with David Smith) (1995) and Social Welfare and Social Value (1998).

'[A] rich addition to the ethics literature, especially in that it encompasses a diversity of helping professions from nursing to teaching to social work to occupational therapy.' - Ethics and Social Welfare

• PrefaceContemporary Professional EthicsKey Debates About EthicsWhy Professional Ethics?The Intelligence of Emotions and the Ethics of CompassionFeminism and the Ethics of CareEcology and the Ethics of LifePostmodernity and Ethics Beyond LiberalismDiscourse Ethics: Constructivism or Critical Realism?Re-evaluating Professional EthicsDiscursive Professional EthicsGlossary of TermsBibliographyIndex.

RICHARD HUGMAN is Professor and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on the professions and professional ethics, including Power in Caring Professions (1991), Ethical Issues in Social Work (edited with David Smith) (1995) and Social Welfare and Social Value (1998).

'[A] rich addition to the ethics literature, especially in that it encompasses a diversity of helping professions from nursing to teaching to social work to occupational therapy.' - Ethics and Social Welfare

• PrefaceContemporary Professional EthicsKey Debates About EthicsWhy Professional Ethics?The Intelligence of Emotions and the Ethics of CompassionFeminism and the Ethics of CareEcology and the Ethics of LifePostmodernity and Ethics Beyond LiberalismDiscourse Ethics: Constructivism or Critical Realism?Re-evaluating Professional EthicsDiscursive Professional EthicsGlossary of TermsBibliographyIndex.

RICHARD HUGMAN is Professor and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on the professions and professional ethics, including Power in Caring Professions (1991), Ethical Issues in Social Work (edited with David Smith) (1995) and Social Welfare and Social Value (1998).

'[A] rich addition to the ethics literature, especially in that it encompasses a diversity of helping professions from nursing to teaching to social work to occupational therapy.' - Ethics and Social Welfare

• PrefaceContemporary Professional EthicsKey Debates About EthicsWhy Professional Ethics?The Intelligence of Emotions and the Ethics of CompassionFeminism and the Ethics of CareEcology and the Ethics of LifePostmodernity and Ethics Beyond LiberalismDiscourse Ethics: Constructivism or Critical Realism?Re-evaluating Professional EthicsDiscursive Professional EthicsGlossary of TermsBibliographyIndex.