Richard Titmuss; Welfare and Society

Download or read book Richard Titmuss; Welfare and Society written by D. Reisman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines of Social Policy and Administration. He made a valuable contribution to social philosophy through his attempt to integrate welfare into its broad social context. In this revised edition of his well-known book, Professor Reisman relies on the whole of Titmuss's work, unpublished as well as published, to explain and evaluate the theories of this provocative but often difficult author.