Download or read book Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State? written by Nadine Reibling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this medicalisation and psychologisation of social policies, and the contributions provide important insights for students and scholars of sociology of health and illness, political sociology, social and health policy, medicine, psychology, and public health.