16919
Seminar
Health vs Economy ? A History of the German welfare State
Daniel Louis Nethery
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Workload and assessment: During the semester you will be required to read around 20 pages each week. You will qualify for 5 ECTS points if your attendance is satisfactory, you engage with the course materials, and you pass the examination at the end of the semester.
Is this course for me? This course is open to all students. There are no prerequisites.
Subject: Since the mid twentieth century the German welfare state has seen public health outcomes improve with sustained economic growth. But when the pandemic forced governments round the world to consider imposing lockdowns, journalists portrayed the choice in stark terms: either protect the population or the “health” of the economy. Lockdowns were feasible, however, only where governments increased welfare spending substantially, and as the pandemic unfolded other significant links between health and the economy—in Germany, the importance of the biomedical industry, for instance—became patent.
Program: Each week we will focus on an aspect of the complex interplay between health and “economy” in the history of the German welfare state, arguably the oldest in the world. We will cover the establishment of social insurance; the German coal and chemical industries; the therapeutic revolution during the so-called golden age of the welfare state; population politics, including abortion law, in East and West Germany; surprising trends in public health outcomes in east and west Germany since reunification; and the challenges posed by population ageing and immigration. Along the way we discuss questions which the study of the welfare state raises and to which the pandemic has given renewed significance: How should governments act to improve public health outcomes? To what extent should they intervene in our lives in pursuing such objectives?
Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mo, 14.10.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 21.10.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 28.10.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 04.11.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 11.11.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 18.11.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 25.11.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 02.12.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 09.12.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 16.12.2024 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 06.01.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 13.01.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 20.01.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 27.01.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 03.02.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Mo, 10.02.2025 10:00 - 12:00