Risk, Social Policy and Welfare Book

	Series editor's foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: risk, responsibility and social policy	1
1	Risk in contemporary society	3
	Understanding risk: common usage and definitions	3
	Approaches to risk: theories and methods	10
	Risk and social policy	15
	Social policy in the risk society	19
2	Key organizing principles of social welfare: from need to risk	24
	The rationale of welfare	25
	Social investment and the promotion of risk taking	31
	Conclusions: is it all risk and no need?	38
3	Health care: the rise of risk, health promotion and rationing	42
	Risk and developments in health policy	43
	Risk and health promotion	44
	The rise of private medical insurance, risk and rationing	53
	Health care in the new millennium: the modernization process	59
4	Child protection and the care of the elderly: need, vulnerability and risk	65
	The changing face of the personal social services	66
	The personal social services: needs-led or risk-led?	76
	Risk assessment and risk management in the personal social services	82
5	Mental health, mental disorder, risk and public protection	90
	Mental health risks in the risk society	94
	Mental health management and the development of community care	99
6	The new risk-based welfare	111
	Shifting welfare: consensus or difference?	112
	The implications for welfare workers: the new risk orthodoxy	128
	The rise of risk and the end of welfare	129
	Glossary	132
	Bibliography	134
	Index	155