Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have profound theoretical and practical implications for the discipline and its practitioners.

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THOMAS RYAN has been a social worker in rural communities in North Queensland and north-east Tasmania, Australia for 18 years. Completing a Bachelor of Social Work degree with Honours in 1993, he was awarded a PhD in 2006. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

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Series Editors' Foreword Animals in the Social Work Tradition: Past and Present Social Work, Subjectivity, and the Moral World Social Work's Kindred Creatures: Biological Continuity and Moral Kinship Social Work and Respect for Individuals A Morally Inclusive Social Work Appendix: New Beginnings, Other Ends: An Inclusive Social Work Code of Ethics Bibliography Index