Review by Choice Review
This informative international volume on how social work can address LGBT health inequities and promote positive social care outcomes, an emerging discipline within the field, balances micro and macro level points of view and successfully straddles human rights and social justice perspectives. Orienting readers to the processes of marginalization of this oppressed and vulnerable population, the production of inequality, and the construction of risk, the book serves as a theoretical, practical guide to what social workers can and should do. Well organized and written, the book offers a comprehensive glossary and great summary sections on current knowledge at the end of each chapter, explains what the chapter adds, and points out its relevance for social work and LGBT health inequities. Other strengths include the book's depth of coverage on practical interventions and best practices, especially with older LGBT people, and a particularly strong chapter on pedagogy by Susan Saltzburg. Social work has a major role to play in addressing and redressing these health inequalities; this text does a service to the profession by giving it a place to begin. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Julie Cooper Altman, California State University, Monterey Bay
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
