Healthy respect: ethics in health care (2nd ed)

This is a book which is certainly needed in social work practice, and I hope it succeeds in reaching its principal audience, but more academic readers are less likely to find it satisfying.

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codes' (page 20), or the confusion of 'trusting' with 'trustworthy' (page 65).There is also a great deal of generalisation, particularly stereotyped in relation to other cultures.It is simply not accurate to say, as the authors do on page 63, that abortion of female fetuses and murder of baby girls in parts of India is the result of 'a centuries-old tradition, sustained by ceaseless grinding poverty and social convention'.The problem is relatively recent, created not only by new technologies but also by the extension of the formerly upper-class habit of providing large dowries to the statusseeking middle and lower-middle classes.That is what has made girls an expensive liability.Overall, this is a book which is cer- tainly needed in social work practice, and I hope it succeeds in reaching its principal audience.