Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Links medicalisation and psychologisation to wider discourses of neoliberal government and individualism
- Explains foundational changes in the way we govern welfare
- Grounds the research in fine-grained detail of German social security in myriad forms
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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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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nadine Reibling is Professor at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and heads the MEPYSO research group at the University of Siegen, Germany.
Mareike Ariaans has held positions as Research Associate at the University of Siegen and the University of Mannheim, Germany. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Mannheim in 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
Book Subtitle: How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy
Editors: Nadine Reibling, Mareike Ariaans
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32793-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32792-6Published: 08 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32795-7Published: 08 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32793-3Published: 07 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 222
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Health Policy, Social Care