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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State? : How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy /

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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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Reibling, Nadine (Editor), Ariaans, Mareike (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Social policy.
Welfare state.
Medical policy.
Social service.
Social psychology.
Social Policy.
Welfare.
Health Policy.
Social Care.
Social Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 222 pages 18 illustrations)
ISBN:9783031327933
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-32793-3
Access:Open Access