Welfare and wellbeing : : Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy / / ed. by Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley, Adrian Sinfield.
Richard Titmuss was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1950 until his death in 1973. His publications on welfare and social policy were radical and wide-ranging, spanning fields such as demography, class inequalities in health, social work, and altruism. Titmus...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sources of extracts
- Introduction
- The family, poverty and population
- The nation’s wealth
- The summation of poverty
- A measurement of human progress
- The position of women
- The ‘welfare state’
- The welfare state: Images and realities
- The social division of welfare: Some reflections on the search for equity
- War and social policy
- Unfinished business
- Redistribution, universality and inequality
- The role of redistribution in social policy
- Welfare state and welfare society
- Social welfare and the art of giving
- Power, policy and privilege
- The irresponsible society
- The need for a new approach
- International and comparative dimensions
- The international perspective
- Developing social policy in conditions of rapid change: The role of social welfare
- The subject of social policy
- The subject of social administration
- What is social policy?
- Values and choices
- Bibliography
- Index