Unsettled social work: The challenge of levinass ethics

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 980-995

  Rossiter, Amy ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical social work; ethics; knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960762008     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr004     Document Type: Article

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