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Placing Dignity at the Center of Welfare Policy

Division of Social Work, Social Policy and Human Services, University of Nottingham Trent, Burton St, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK chakkwan.chan{at}ntu.ac.uk

In response to the vagueness of dignity and its limited application in social welfare, this article attempts to explore the content of dignity and discuss its implications for welfare policies. Dignity concerns living respectfully, for which having equal value, self-respect, autonomy and positive mutuality is essential. The article argues that institutional dignification, community respect and human development are three welfare directions for facilitating the possession of dignity.

International Social Work, Vol. 47, No. 2, 227-239 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0020872804041415


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