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Book Review
Tales
of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization
of Social Work. By Karen W. Tice. (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 260 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-252-02397-8.
Paper, $26.95, isbn 0-252-06698-7.)
| Karen W. Tice's
history of the development of casework in social work diagnosis
offers a welcome and important alternative to the social workers'
characteristic representation of themselves as professional messengers
who gather facts "scientifically" and dispense information, aid,
and services. Tice documents how the case record becomes a professional
strategy that deploys several paradigmatic narratives offering a
complicated set of constructed meanings in their messages. |
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