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The Peter Townsend Reader (Hardcover)
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The Peter Townsend Reader (Hardcover)
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In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday.
It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of
his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city
deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on
the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual
versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and
viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and
extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is
a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend
Reader looks at the changes in social policy that have taken place
in the UK, as well as internationally, over the past six decades.
Each section of the book is introduced by an editor who is
acquainted with Peter Townsend's work. It provides insight into the
development of one social scientist's entire intellectual approach,
particularly in choosing to place social policy at the center of
social theory. The b
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