The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare: LSE Pioneers in Social Policy
Autor Sally Shearden Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 noi 2013
Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential figures in the shaping of social welfare in the twentieth century. A modern day Thomas Paine, the British economist and expert advisor was driven to improve the lives of the poor, working with groups like the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, and the World Bank to help bring health and social welfare services to millions across the globe. The Passionate Economist is the first biography to chronicle his life and the many programs he helped create.
Sally Sheard details Abel-Smith’s work as an economist and advocate, setting it against the backdrop of the larger history of health and social welfare development since the 1950s. She analyzes these developments and the effects that long-running welfare debates have had on both poverty and state responses to it. She compares welfare implementation in different developing countries and examines how it was administered by the agencies for which Abel-Smith worked. The result is an accessible book on a leading humanitarian and, through him, a history of exactly how we have cared for each other in the globalized era.
Sally Sheard details Abel-Smith’s work as an economist and advocate, setting it against the backdrop of the larger history of health and social welfare development since the 1950s. She analyzes these developments and the effects that long-running welfare debates have had on both poverty and state responses to it. She compares welfare implementation in different developing countries and examines how it was administered by the agencies for which Abel-Smith worked. The result is an accessible book on a leading humanitarian and, through him, a history of exactly how we have cared for each other in the globalized era.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781447314844
ISBN-10: 1447314840
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 40 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 53 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria LSE Pioneers in Social Policy
ISBN-10: 1447314840
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 40 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 53 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria LSE Pioneers in Social Policy
Notă biografică
Sally Sheard is a senior lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Liverpool and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. She is coauthor of The Nation’s Doctor.
Cuprins
List of illustrations and sources
Acknowledgements
Sources and abbreviations
Prologue
Part 1: Inheritances and duties, 1926-51
1 Inheritances: 1926-46
Smiths and Abel-Smiths
An English education
After Haileybury
2 A wider world: 1946-51
National Service
Austria: Brian's cold war
Cambridge
A political education
Postgraduate
The British Council universities debating tour
Part 2: The politics of policies, 1951-79
3 Beveridge's Britain: 1951-55
The new British welfare state
Useful academics: the London School of Economics
Social science and social policy
Richard Titmuss
Peter Townsend
The Fabians
Tony Crosland and The Future of Socialism
The Reform of Social Security
Costing the National Health Service
Too political for research?
4 Political ambitions and private passions: 1955-59
An independent life
New Pensions for the Old
Dalton's heir
Whose Welfare State?
National Insurance
National Assistance
Reconceptualising poverty
5 Health and happiness: 1956-64
Judgements and predictions: health and medicine in Britain
Funding health service research: collaborations and conflicts
Bedpans and balance sheets: managing the NHS
Friendships and partnerships
A natural historian: The Hospitals 1800-1948
In the public's eye
6 Lingua franca: 1956-67
Health economics
Mauritius: three is the magic number
Paying for Health Services
7 Distractions and diversions: 1964-68
The disappearance of national superannuation
The professors of poverty
Child Poverty Action Group
The new Supplementary Benefits Scheme
Managing the Poverty Survey
A legal interest
(Only) Just Men
8 Values: 1968-70
Policy from the inside: advising Richard Crossman
Health enquiries
AEGIS and the Ely scandal
Restructuring the National Health Service
The LSE, 1967-69
The end of the titmice
'The Poor Get Poorer Under Labour'
9 Patriarchy and authority: 1970-74
Health and social policy: theory and practice
Enquiries: abuse of social security, NHS management,
Thalidomide
'Quite like old times;' pensions
International interests: health economics
Development, poverty and population control
Losses
10 'Such marvellous fun': 1974-76
Chocolate soldiers: the rise of the special adviser
Private concerns
'One of us': advising Barbara Castle
Labour's policy machine
National Health Service: 'The ark of our covenant'
Pay beds
Resource Allocation Working Party
Mental illness, mental handicap and disability benefits
Pensions: third time lucky
11 Disillusionment: 1976-79
Ennals, 'Deep Throat' and the Cabinet papers leak
The Castle Diaries
The Royal Commission on the National Health Service
The 30th anniversary of the National Health Service
Inequalities: the Supplementary Benefits Review and the Black Report
Peter Shore and the Department of the Environment
Labour in 1979: assessments and strategies
12 International commuting: 1975-79
Value for Money in Health Services: A Comparative Study
Return to Mauritius
The European Economic Community
A new European advisory role
Part 3: Shifting the balance of power, 1979-96
13 In and outers: 1979-91
Health for All by the Year 2000
HFA2000: health, wealth and health economics
Making a Financial Master Plan
Special adviser to Mahler
Health promotion
HFA2000: targets and assessments
The rise of the World Bank
The Commission on Health Research for Development
Kenya
14 The end of the party: 1979-90
Labour in opposition
Reform or dissolution? The National Health Service in Conservative Britain
London's health services
The new academia: a business of knowledge
15 On the move: 1990-96
Reform: the progressive rise of health insurance
LSE 'retirement'
Cost Containment and New Priorities in Health Care
Tanzania, Indonesia and Thailand: personal and professional interests
The new language of health and social welfare
Health: political and personal
Epilogue: Stories, histories and biographies
Bibliography of Brian Abel-Smith's publications
Endnotes
Index
Recenzii
“This clearly written and wide-ranging volume provides powerful evidence as to why Brian Abel-Smith, through his incisive and influential contributions to the development of health and social welfare policy both in Britain and further afield, should be regarded as one of the titans of post-1945 social administration.”
“Here was a character so rich and complex that the life itself would illuminate much about British and international health and welfare. Sheard has amply fulfilled this promise. . . . A very full biography with much fine detail. . . . The Passionate Economist stimulates salutary reflection for all of us concerned to make history more policy relevant. What politicians really need, on this evidence, is first pragmatic advice on the framing and costing of policies, and then the nous to help steer them into law. The historian’s temporizing and reflexivity is rarely a prime requirement. However, if the adviser’s guidance is historically informed, as it clearly was in Abel-Smith’s case, then so much the better. Perhaps these are the figures we should address.”
“Deserves to find its way onto many people’s shelves . . . not just the historians of health and welfare but anyone interested in questions of social justice.”
“How 'academic' knowledge and research actually impact on policy has always been a challenging question. Brian Abel-Smith's career as a scholar, networker, entrepreneur, and shaper of global health and welfare systems provides a fascinating and important case-study. In skilfully weaving together the evidence from personal and professional archives, Sheard's book allows us to understand much more about a man who had an extraordinary influence on public policy.”
“This fascinating book brought Brian Abel-Smith alive again for me. I knew him only in the later stages of his career, but the text made me recall his warmth, personal support, and incisive mind.”
“As the dismantling of the National Health Service as we have known it proceeds apace, this biography brings alive a pivotal figure in its development since the 1950s. It reminds us of the strengths of the health and social welfare systems, which we have taken too much for granted. Hopefully it will help inspire their reinstatement.”
“This book has many of the qualities possessed by Brian Abel-Smith, its subject: lively, stimulating, and committed. Brian was a citizen of the world, one who not only bridged international boundaries but also those of policy, politics, and academe. And Sheard has done this remarkable man justice by producing a remarkable biography.”
“As a result of her exhaustive research and with insightful writing, Sheard brings readers the life and work of an influential activist intellectual. Brian Abel-Smith set standards for conducting research on health services and systems, advising policy makers, governing healthcare organizations, and participating in an international network dedicated to improving the human condition.”
“Sheard’s biography is a pleasure to read and a fascinating account of the public intellectual role that Brian Abel-Smith played in welfare state policy and politics both at home and abroad.”