Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State? How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy /
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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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The biopsychosocial welfare state: A theoretical framework
- Medicine, psychology, and the welfare state
- Unemployment - A case for medicine and psychology?
- Poverty - More than just a lack of material resources?
- Childhood in crisis - Are medicine and psychology part of the problem or part of the solution?
- Neoliberalism and social investment: Paving the way for medicalization and psychologization
- The biopsychosocial welfare state: A new perspective on social policy.