Richard Titmuss; Welfare and Society : Welfare and Society

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social context.In this revised edition of his well-known book, Professor Reisman relies on the whole of Titmuss's work, unpublished as well as published, to explain and evaluate the theories of this provocative but often difficult author.