Greg A Eghigian: 2 books
Making Security Social
Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens. This volume argues that the emergence of social insurance represents a paradigmatic shift in modern understandings...
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible
Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by...