Ethics at the Margins: Human Service and Social Work Practice with Vulnerable People
Title:
Ethics at the Margins
Subtitle: Human Service and Social Work Practice with Vulnerable People
Subject Classification:
Sociology, Poverty, Philosophy
BIC Classification: HP, JH, JFFA
BISAC Classification:
SOC025000, PHI005000, SOC045000
Binding:
Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date:
May 2026
ISBN (Hardback):
978-1-83711-232-6
ISBN (eBook):
978-1-83711-233-3
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This book will serve as a core text of human services and social work courses devoted to human vulnerability and to those populations coping with life below those thresholds of human existence that are essential to health and well-being. The book’s author brings some 50 years of experience in human services design and development in which he has sought to make human services practice responsive to those individuals living on the edge of society. The ethics of such practice is unlike core practice ethics one would find in psychology, counselling, and social work since the book focuses specifically on those environmental factors that compromise people’s well-being as they seek to live on the edge of their communities, too often unwanted and “invisible”. Within the text, the author treats vulnerability as involving diminished emotional, psychological, physical, and cognitive functioning because of environmental deprivation that compromises health and well-being.
The cases in the book are derived from more than twenty years of work the author has undertaken in community settings and examine the challenges human services practitioners face in meeting the needs of those who experience deprivation. The book incorporates four sections involving (1) framing ethics at the margins, (2) carrying capacities to address vulnerability at local levels, (3) ethical implications of human service practices, and (4) the human service professional as witness. The idea of witnessing human vulnerability and the requirements of ethical professional action to create equity in well-being for those facing deprivation are themes that run through the volume.
Author(s): Dr. David P. Moxley is a professor and assistant dean at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA.
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