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Richard Titmuss : A Commitment to Welfare
Author
Title
Richard Titmuss : A Commitment to Welfare / John Stewart.
ISBN
9781447341062
9781447341055
Publication
Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (600 pages).
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
LSE Pioneers in Social Policy
Contents
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
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
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
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
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
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Biographies.
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