Moral sources and emergent ethical theories in social work

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1794-1811

  Gray, Mel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

dialogical ethics; ethics of care; feminist ethical theory; Social work ethics; virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956473645     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp104     Document Type: Article

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