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Richard Titmuss : a commitment to welfare /
This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain's post-war welfare debates.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | LSE Pioneers in Social Policy
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Working in the department
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part 3 First decade at the LSE
- 11 Setting out his stall
- Introduction
- 'The Position of Women'
- North of the border
- 'The Social Division of Welfare'
- Addressing social workers
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 12 The Guillebaud Committee and the early years of the National Health Service
- Introduction
- Thinking about the NHS
- The Guillebaud Committee
- After Guillebaud: prescriptions
- After Guillebaud: Members One of Another
- Parallels in education
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 13 Pensions and old age
- Introduction
- The Population Investigation Committee
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8 Titmuss and the media in the 1940s: a growing reputation
- Introduction
- Writing and lecturing
- On the air
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 9 Population and family: Parents Revolt and the beginnings of social medicine
- Introduction
- Parents Revolt
- Titmuss and Churchill
- Social medicine
- The Social Medicine Research Unit
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 10 The London School of Economics and 'Social Administration in a Changing Society'
- Introduction
- Coming to the LSE
- Social Administration in a changing society
- R.H. Tawney and The Acquisitive Society
- Saving the poor and feeding the masses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part 2 From Problems of Social Policy to the London School of Economics
- 6 Problems of Social Policy: researching and firewatching
- Introduction
- The trials of authorship
- The history of the Home Front
- Lady Allen and Lady Reading
- The volume's reception
- Rethinking Problems of Social Policy
- Firewatching
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Titmuss and the Eugenics Society in war
- Introduction
- Committee man, editor, and contributor
- Birth, Poverty and Wealth
- 3 Politics: the Liberal Party, the 'Fleet Street Parliament', and Forward March
- Introduction
- The Liberal Party and the Fleet Street Parliament
- International affairs: 'Crime and Tragedy'
- Forward March
- Titmuss's liberalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 The Eugenics Society, Poverty and Population, and 'Manpower and Health'
- Introduction
- The Eugenics Society
- Poverty and Population
- Government statistics and population health in peace and war
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 The Titmuss gospel and progressive opinion
- Introduction
- Getting the message out
- Front Cover
- Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- Series
- 1 Introduction
- Titmuss in the twentieth century
- The 'Titmuss paradigm'
- Understanding Titmuss: David Reisman
- Titmuss the person
- This volume
- Notes
- Part 1 Early life and career to the end of 1941
- 2 'As the son of a farmer ... ': origins, early employment, and personal life
- Birth, childhood, and youth
- Employment
- Marriage and private life
- Notes