Title Risk, social policy and welfare / Hazel Kemshall

Published Buckingham : Open University Press, 2002

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Description viii, 159 pages ; 24 cm Series Introducing social policy Introducing social policy. Contents Introduction: risk, responsibility and social policy -- 1. Risk in contemporary society -- 2. Key organizing principles of social welfare: from need to risk -- 3. Health care: the rise of risk, health promotion and rationing -- 4. Child protection and the care of the elderly: need, vulnerability and risk -- 5. Mental health, mental disorder, risk and public protection -- 6. The new risk-based welfare Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index Subject Social policy -- Great Britain. Risk -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies. Social policy -- Great Britain -- Case studies. Risk -- Sociological aspects. Public welfare -- Great Britain -- Case studies. Risk -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Risk -- Great Britain. Public welfare -- Great Britain. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001103 Genre/Form Case studies. LC no. 2001021660 ISBN 0335204104 : 0335204090 :

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