Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy

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eBook - ePub

Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State? by Nadine Reibling,Mareike Ariaans in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Health Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. The Biopsychosocial Welfare State: A Theoretical Framework
  5. 3. Medicine, Psychology, and the Welfare State
  6. 4. Unemployment: A Case for Medicine and Psychology?
  7. 5. Poverty: More Than Just a Lack of Material Resources?
  8. 6. Childhood in Crisis: Are Medicine and Psychology Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
  9. 7. Neoliberalism and Social Investment: Paving the Way for Medicalization and Psychologization
  10. 8. The Biopsychosocial Welfare State: A New Perspective on Social Policy
  11. Back Matter