Katherine van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link
PREFACE
PART I: SOCIAL WELFARE: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS
1. Social Work: A Human Rights Profession
2. American Social Values in International Context
3. Emergence of Social Work: Part I
4. Emergence of Social Work: Part II
5. Social Forms of Oppression
6. Human Rights
and Restorative Justice
7. Poverty and Human Rights
8. Public Assistance and Other Strategies to End Poverty
PART II: SOCIAL WORK ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE
9. Environmental Justice
10. Child Welfare
11. Care at the End of the Life Cycle
12. Health Care as a Human Right by
Marta Vides Saade
13. Care for Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities
Epilogue "Putting It All Together"
Appendix A: U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix B: Outline for Anti-Oppressive Policy Analysis
Appendix C: Relevant Internet Sites
Index
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Katherine Stuart van Wormer, PhD, MSSW, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. A native of New Orleans, she majored in English at the University of North Carolina where she was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She worked for several years in Northern Ireland as an
English teacher and in Norway as an alcoholism counselor.
Rosemary J. Link, PhD, LISW, is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Simpson College. An international human rights expert, she has developed exchanges in a variety of countries, including Mexico with the Center for
Global Education; initiated a 20 year sustained exchange of faculty and students with the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Augsburg College MN; and presented with Indian and US social work students in Bangalore, Chennai and Mangalore.