Values in Professional Practice: Lessons for Health, Social Care and Other Professionals

by Pattison,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781857758184
• ISBN10: 1857758188
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cardiff Univ., UK. Explores the relationship between values and professions and provides a critical introduction to the ways in which these values are understood by different professional groups. Covers such topics as value conflicts and professional identity, values embodied in codes of practice, values in research, and values in education and training. Softcover.

Author Biography

Donald Bentley MB, DCH, MSc, FRCP, FRCPCH: Consultant Paediatrician, Former Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London Sophie Aubrey BSc(Hons), DipD, SRD: Chief Paediatric Dietrician; Barts and The London NHS Trust, London Melissa Bentley MBBS, BSc(Hons), MRCS: Specialist Registrar, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
About the editors	p. ix
About the contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
Understanding values	p. 1
Understanding professions and professionals in the context of values	p. 13
Professions and values in historical context
Introduction	p. 31
Professionalisation and aesthetic values	p. 35
The clergy: an interesting anomaly	p. 47
Value conflicts and professional identity
Introduction	p. 57
Is health service management a profession?	p. 65
Equity versus efficiency: managing competing values for the public sector leisure professional	p. 77
Value dilemmas and social work practice	p. 89
Values embodied in codes of practice
Introduction	p. 105
What can we expect of professional codes of conduct, practice and ethics?	p. 109
The development and use of codes of practice for professional engineers	p. 123
Values in education and training
Introduction	p. 139
Exploring values in legal education: an insider perspective	p. 143
Values, working lives and professional socialisation in planning	p. 157
Values in research
Introduction	p. 169
Values in research: the case of nursing	p. 173
Professional researchers: values in the work context	p. 183
Conclusion
Professions and values: a dynamic relationship	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 221
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