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Professor Sarah Banks' Outputs (108)

From professional ethics to ethics in professional life : implications for learning, teaching and study (2009)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2009). From professional ethics to ethics in professional life : implications for learning, teaching and study. Ethics and Social Welfare, 3(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496530902819078

This short piece offers some reflections on features of the traditional professional ethics literature, focusing on codes, conduct and rational decision-making in difficult cases. It is argued that this kind of approach offers a rather artificial, ab... Read More about From professional ethics to ethics in professional life : implications for learning, teaching and study.

Global Ethics for Social Work: Problems and Possibilities - Papers from the Ethics & Social Welfare Symposium, Durban, July 2008 (2008)
Journal Article
Banks, S., Hugman, R., Healy, L., Bozalek, V., & Orme, J. (2008). Global Ethics for Social Work: Problems and Possibilities - Papers from the Ethics & Social Welfare Symposium, Durban, July 2008. Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(3), 276-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496530802481722

This piece comprises short presentations given by contributors to a symposium organized by the journal Ethics & Social Welfare on the theme of global ethics for social work. The contributors offer their reflections on the extent to which universally... Read More about Global Ethics for Social Work: Problems and Possibilities - Papers from the Ethics & Social Welfare Symposium, Durban, July 2008.

Critical commentary: social work ethics (2008)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2008). Critical commentary: social work ethics. The British Journal of Social Work, 38(6), 1238-1249. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn099

This short article explores the expanding and contested terrain of social work ethics, considering the form and content of future areas for development. It charts the broadening of the field beyond a focus on professional codes of ethics, principle-b... Read More about Critical commentary: social work ethics.

Ethics and Social Welfare: The State of Play (2008)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2008). Ethics and Social Welfare: The State of Play. Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496530801948861

This extended editorial takes stock of the first volume of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, offering an overview of the types of contributions in the first four issues and suggesting future themes. A critical summary is given of the contributio... Read More about Ethics and Social Welfare: The State of Play.

Critical Community Practice (2007)
Book
Butcher, H., Banks, S., Henderson, P., & Robertson, J. (2007). Critical Community Practice. Policy Press

With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhancing service delivery, this book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice. It offers a much-needed theoretical per... Read More about Critical Community Practice.

The grit in the oyster: community development workers in a modernizing local authority (2007)
Journal Article
Banks, S., & Orton, A. (2007). The grit in the oyster: community development workers in a modernizing local authority. Community Development Journal, 42(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsi074

This article offers a brief overview of the challenges facing UK local authorities, including the need to enhance public participation in decision making and service delivery, improve service performance and increase partnership working. It explores... Read More about The grit in the oyster: community development workers in a modernizing local authority.

Between equity and empathy: social professions and the new accountability (2007)
Journal Article
Banks, S. (2007). Between equity and empathy: social professions and the new accountability. Social work & society, 5(3), 11-22

This article explores the practical and ethical implications of the ‘new accountability’ (working to procedures, targets and standards) based on interviews with British social professionals. Although similar tendencies are present in other European c... Read More about Between equity and empathy: social professions and the new accountability.

Ordinary ethics: lay people's deliberations on social sex selection (2006)
Journal Article
Banks, S., Scully, J., & Shakespeare, T. (2006). Ordinary ethics: lay people's deliberations on social sex selection. New Genetics and Society, 25(3), 289-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636770601032890

This article summarises the results of a research project that used a scenario about sex selection of embryos for social reasons as a basis for discussion groups with lay people. The aim of the research was to examine the processes by which non-profe... Read More about Ordinary ethics: lay people's deliberations on social sex selection.

Gift not commodity? Lay people deliberating social sex selection (2006)
Journal Article
Scully, J., Shakespeare, T., & Banks, S. (2006). Gift not commodity? Lay people deliberating social sex selection. Sociology of Health & Illness, 28(6), 749-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00540.x

In this paper we explore lay people's discussions of the controversial topic of social sex selection (SSS). In the UK and many other countries, SSS is prohibited by law. In 2003 the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, after an extensive... Read More about Gift not commodity? Lay people deliberating social sex selection.

Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection (2006)
Journal Article
Scully, J., Banks, S., & Shakespeare, T. (2006). Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection. Social Science & Medicine, 63(1), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.12.013

Assisted reproductive technologies are typically positioned as increasing the range of choices open to the healthcare consumer, thereby enhancing ‘reproductive freedom’. In this paper, we question the equivalence of reproductive choice and personal f... Read More about Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection.

Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions (2006)
Journal Article
Banks, S., & Vickers, T. (2006). Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions

This article critically examines a regional programme of community development learning in the context of current UK government policies to develop and engage ‘active communities’ in neighbourhood and civil renewal. It outlines the positive outcomes... Read More about Empowering communities through active learning: challenges and contradictions.

Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas (2005)
Journal Article
Banks, S., & Williams, R. (2005). Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas. The British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), 1005-1022. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch199

This paper is a preliminary exploration of social welfare practitioners’ accounts of ‘ethically difficult situations’. It describes variations in the ethical vocabulary and form of these accounts. Analysis of practitioners’ own accounts (as opposed t... Read More about Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas.