Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
Buch
- How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy
- Herausgeber: Mareike Ariaans, Nadine Reibling
- Springer International Publishing, 09/2023
- Einband: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031327926
- Bestellnummer: 11597171
- Umfang: 244 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2023
- Gewicht: 433 g
- Maße: 216 x 153 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.9.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this medicalisation and psychologisation of social policies, and the contributions provide important insights for students and scholars of sociology of health and illness, political sociology, social and health policy, medicine, psychology, and public health.Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
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