Social work has not delved deeply into or discussed sufficiently the implications and appli-
cations of the ethical issues that confront the profession in health services. Despite our code …

The attention paid by the social work profession to ethical issues has waxed and waned
since the formal inauguration of the profession in the late 19th century. For the first half …

This paper is a report of an exploraty qualitative study that examined the role that social work
ethics plays in informing social work behavior, as compared to other influences of an extra …

Discussions of social work ethics have traditionally been concerned with identifying values
considered central to the profession and establishing guidelines for relationships between …

A descriptive study design was used to examine ethical decision-making among hospital
social workers. A mailed survey was sent to a sample of acute care, medical-surgical …

In the 1960s and 1970s the literature on social work values tended to focus on issues
related to the rights and interests of the individual user. The emphasis was very much on the …

Ethical issues in health care, or bioethics, are not new to social work, but the maturation of
the profession no less than scarce resources and advances in technology are focusing …

Hospital social workers (N= 255) from ten urban teaching hospitals in seven states were
surveyed regarding their practice responses and training needs in bioethics. Responses to …

Despite the organizational context of social work practice, both traditionally and currently,
little attention has been given to the ethics of organizations. This is not surprising, since …

The past three decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the face of American health
care. Constant advances in medical technology, when coupled with the fiscal constraints …