In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of embeddedness in any given community and the ability to work. Along this dual axis the author locates virtually the entire history of social welfare in early-modern and contemporary...
In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor...
Die psychiatrische Ordnung ist eine Geschichte der modernen Psychiatrie, die insbesondere die Verflechtungen dieses Zweiges der Medizin mit den Organisationen gesellschaftlicher und politischer Macht aufzeigt.
Die psychiatrische Ordnung ist eine Geschichte der modernen Psychiatrie, die insbesondere die Verflechtungen dieses Zweiges der Medizin mit den Organi...
