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

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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Other Authors: Reibling, Nadine (Editor), Ariaans, Mareike (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Subjects:
Central government policies
Social work
Health systems & services
Social welfare & social services
social policy
medicalisation of welfare
neoliberalism
welfare policy
social work
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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 electronic resource (222 p.)
ISBN:978-3-031-32793-3
9783031327933
9783031327926
Access:Open Access

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