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  • Social policy

    by Spicker, Paul ...
    Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, ... Read more

    $35.69 CAD

  • What Is the Welfare State For?

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    Most states in the world make some provision for the welfare of their citizens. Every state engages with health care provision, almost all provide education services, and, after an explosion of interest in recent years, a substantial majority now have national schemes in place for cash assistance.Welfare states matter for people’s lives – but there is little agreement about what one is. What are ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • States and Welfare States

    Government for the People

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Most governments in the world – including many that are autocratic or authoritarian – have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and, considering a range of theories and evidence, discusses views about government responsibility for social ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • How to Fix the Welfare State

    Some Ideas for Better Social Services

    by Paul Spicker ...
    The British welfare state is traditionally understood to be comprised of five main services: health, housing, social security, education and the ‘personal social services’, such as social care and child protection.In this book, Paul Spicker offers an original take on the role of the state in relation to these services, along with three other areas where institutional services have been developed: ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • The Poverty of Nations

    A Relational Perspective

    by Paul Spicker ...
    In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty.Poverty is much more than a lack of resources. It involves a complex set of social relationships, such as economic disadvantage, insecurity or a lack of rights. These relational elements tell us what poverty is – what it consists of, what poor people are experiencing, and what ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?

    by Paul Spicker ...
    In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency, that it fails to get people into work, and that the system is riddled with fraud – are ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Thinking Collectively

    Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good

    by Paul Spicker ...
    What does collectivism mean in social policy? What does thinking collectively imply for policy?In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker lends a complementary voice to his Reclaiming Individualism, reviewing collectivism as a dimension of political discourse. Breaking down his analysis to examine collectivism through substantive, moral and methodological lenses, he reviews a series of ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Poverty

    An International Glossary

    Edited by Paul Spicker, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón, David Gordon ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Arguments for Welfare

    The Welfare State and Social Policy

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Series series Rowman & Littlefield International - Policy Impacts
    This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world offers some form of social protection, and measures to improve the social and economic well-being of its citizens. However, the provision of welfare is under attack. The critics argue that welfare states are illegitimate, that things are best left to the market, and that welfare has bad effects on the ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics

    Essays in Honor of Hans Jonas on his 75th Birthday, May 10, 1978

    Edited by S.F. Spicker ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Festschrift is presented to Professor Hans Jonas on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, as affirmation of the contributors' respect and admiration. As a volume in the series 'Philosophy and Medicine' the contributions not only reflect certain interests and pursuits of the scholar to whom it is dedi cated, but also serve to bring to convergence the interests of the contributors in the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

    Some Moral Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use

    Edited by W.B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., S.F. Spicker, J.M. White ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the last century, but especially over the last few decades, culminating in such high technology interventions as heart transplants and renal dialysis. These increases in medical powers have attracted societal ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care

    Value Conflicts for the 21st Century

    Edited by S.F. Spicker, S.R. Ingman, Ian Lawson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    There is both a timeliness and a transcendent 'rightness' in the fact that scholars, clinicians, and health professionals are beginning to examine the ethics-based components of decision making in health care of the elderly. Ethics - as the discipline concerned with right or wrong conduct and moral duty - pervades hospital rooms, nursing home corridors, physicians' offices, and the halls of ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD