SOCIAL WORK & RECEIVED IDEAS
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SOCIAL WORK & RECEIVED IDEAS (ebook)

CHRIS ROJEK

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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
Materia
MEDICINA GRAL
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9781135078874
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209
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Epublication content package
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The first book to examine the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power. The will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination.

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