Welfare and wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy by Pete A

Welfare and wellbeing by Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley, Adrian Sinfield

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Description This book brings together a selection of Richard Titmuss's important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary from experts in the field. The companion volume is, Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service edited by Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker (The Policy Press, 2004).

Publisher Description

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.Titmuss's work played a critical role in establishing the study of social policy as a scientific discipline; it helped to shape the development of the British Welfare State and influenced thinking about social policy worldwide.Despite its continuing relevance to current social policy issues both in the UK and internationally, much of Titmuss's work is now out of print.This book brings together a selection of his most important writings on a range of key social policy issues, together with commentary on these from contemporary experts in the field. The book should be read by undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy and sociology, for many of whom Titmuss remains compulsory reading.It will be of interest to academics and other policy analysts as well as students and academics in political science and social work.

Author Biography

Pete Alcock is Professor of Social Policy and Administration and Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Birmingham; he has written widely about British social policy, including two leading textbooks. Howard Glennerster is Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science; he is the author of many books on social policy, and a specialist in the financing of the social services.Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London Institute of Education and Richard Titmuss's daughter and literary executor; she has written and researched widely in the fields of gender, health and social science.Adrian Sinfield is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and past President of the Social Policy Association, and has a particular interest in unemployment and social security.

Details ISBN 1861342993 ISBN-13 9781861342997 Title Welfare and wellbeing Author Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley, Adrian Sinfield Format Paperback Year 2001 Pages 256 Publisher Bristol University Press GE_Item_ID:161817328; About Us

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