Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination.
Authors' note; Introduction: 'Metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties'; 1 Received ideas and jargon in traditional social work; 2 The Marxist alternative; 3 Women, social work, and feminism; 4 Social work, humanism, and discourse analysis; 5 'The social' in social work; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index;
