Social Policy and the Body
Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
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Author
Contributions
- Kathryn Ellis (Editor) - Contributor
- Hartley Dean (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
1999-12-03 - Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Word Count
61,750 words, Guess
Page Count
247 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10387437M
- ISBN-139780312220587
- ISBN-100312220588
- OCLC Control Number40267287
- OCLC Control Number222262435
and 3 more
- Internet Archivesocialpolicybody0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number98049905
- Goodreads1578806
Classifications
- LCCGV706.5JC479H96-H97.
Description
"In the opening chapters, the editors outline their proposition that social policy in successive periods of welfare capitalism has been constituted by three corporeal discourses. The imperative of 'physical efficiency' to dominate the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century was succeeded by a drive for 'social efficiency' after the Second World War. Since the early 1970s, and the disappearance of the social body on which postwar welfare states were founded, the discourse of the 'independent body' has dominated welfare regimes globally with citizens exhorted to make provision for their own bodily welfare. Placing the body at the centre of welfare regimes opens up a novel and potentially rich seam of enquiry for academics and students of social policy."--BOOK JACKET.
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