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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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