Social Work Values: an Enquiry

Social Work Intervention Challenges for an Abused Elder Client

Introduction: Increasing abusing elders in developing countries, including Iran, is undeniable. While governments and people in developed countries are ready to meet this challenge, developing countries have no clear vision for it. In this article, a case of abused elder women and the challenges which the social worker encountered in her intervention have been reported.  Case Description: A sev...

Propagating organization: an enquiry

Our aim in this article is to attempt to discuss propagating organization of process, a poorly articulated union of matter, energy, work, constraints and that vexed concept, ‘‘information’’, which unite in far from equilibrium living physical systems. Our hope is to stimulate discussions by philosophers of biology and biologists to further clarify the concepts we discuss here. We place our disc...

Values of an electronic social record

This chapter analyses the effects of introducing ICT as a support for the social record in elderly care. The effects of the electronic social record are assessed by analysing the different values the electronic social record supports. These values are discussed in terms of ‘value areas’ (values related to administration, integration, professional, and care) which is a categorization of anticipa...

An Address on Cholera Enquiry

Even in regard to the simple question, whether the discharges from cholera patients, mixed with drinking water, are capable of communicating cholera to human beings using such water, there is the greatest diversity of opinion. The careful researches of Snow, more than 30 years ago, one would have thought, would have settled this question for ever, but it is not so. Macnamara's test case, in whi...

An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice