Part I: Key issues in hospital social work
Preface
Chapter One: Hospital Social Work in Context
Chapter Two: A Brief History of Hospital Social Work
Chapter Three: The Current State of Hospital Social Work
Chapter Four: Using Research in Social Work
Part II: An ethnographic account of hospital social work
Preface
Chapter Five: Social Work in the ‘Iron Cage’
Chapter Six: Is it still social work?
Chapter Seven: The Social Work ‘Cuckoo’ in the Hospital ‘Nest’
Chapter Eight: Conclusions
Biography
Daniel Burrows trained as a social worker at Cardiff University, where he and his future wife met. After seven years in practice, he moved over to teaching and completed his professional doctorate. He now lives in Cardiff with his wife and two sons and teaches on the MA Social Work at Cardiff University.
