Pat Starkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat Starkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | Starkey |
| SIGNATURE | STARKEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Social Worker Speaks
David Burnham, Farnham/Surrey/Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2012, x+213 pp, ISBN 978-1-4094-3638-6 (hbk) (£55.00), 978-14094-3639-3 (ebk) (£56.65) As its title makes clear, this is not a history of soci
Temporary relief for specially recommended or selected deserving persons’
Twentieth-century voluntary social work organizations became accustomed to altering the emphases of their work in response to changing legislation or shifts in funding priorities. The House of Charity for Distressed Persons in Soho, founded in 1846, provides a nineteenth-century example of a similar phenomenon. The history of its first 70 years suggests that the intention to serve ‘selected deserving persons’ was outweighed by the need to ensure …
Gendering Scottish History
Can the Piper Call the Tune? Innovation and Experiment with Deprived Families in Britain, 1940-1980s
In 1948, work with so‐called problem families that had been pioneered by Pacifist Service Units during the war was put on to a permanent peace‐time footing and the organization was renamed Family Service Units (FSU). Because no other agencies were prepared to tackle such work, FSU negotiated a particular space for itself within postwar welfare arrangements. This article will argue that the relative autonomy and distinctiveness that FSU could clai…
The feckless mother
This article considers the stigmatisation of poor mothers during and after the Second World War and highlights the promotion of the image of the feckless mother, together with explanations for her plight, which hinged on personal rather than environmental factors. Eugenic ideas informing the construct of the "problem mother" determined the ways in which the phenomenon was understood and treatment designed, and contributed to the failure to develo…
Nursing and the politics of welfare
Itinerant kingship and royal monasteries in early medieval Germany c.936-1075
Journal Article Itinerant kingship and royal monasteries in early medieval Germany c.936–1075 Get access Pat Starkey Pat Starkey University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 114–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.1.114 Published: 01 January 1995
The feckless mother
This article considers the stigmatisation of poor mothers during and after the Second World War and highlights the promotion of the image of the feckless mother, together with explanations for her plight, which hinged on personal rather than environmental factors. Eugenic ideas informing the construct of the "problem mother" determined the ways in which the phenomenon was understood and treatment designed, and contributed to the failure to develo…
The Social Worker Speaks
David Burnham, Farnham/Surrey/Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2012, x+213 pp, ISBN 978-1-4094-3638-6 (hbk) (£55.00), 978-14094-3639-3 (ebk) (£56.65) As its title makes clear, this is not a history of soci
Can the Piper Call the Tune? Innovation and Experiment with Deprived Families in Britain, 1940-1980s
In 1948, work with so‐called problem families that had been pioneered by Pacifist Service Units during the war was put on to a permanent peace‐time footing and the organization was renamed Family Service Units (FSU). Because no other agencies were prepared to tackle such work, FSU negotiated a particular space for itself within postwar welfare arrangements. This article will argue that the relative autonomy and distinctiveness that FSU could clai…
Itinerant kingship and royal monasteries in early medieval Germany c.936-1075
Journal Article Itinerant kingship and royal monasteries in early medieval Germany c.936–1075 Get access Pat Starkey Pat Starkey University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 114–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.1.114 Published: 01 January 1995
Nursing and the politics of welfare
The feckless mother
This article considers the stigmatisation of poor mothers during and after the Second World War and highlights the promotion of the image of the feckless mother, together with explanations for her plight, which hinged on personal rather than environmental factors. Eugenic ideas informing the construct of the "problem mother" determined the ways in which the phenomenon was understood and treatment designed, and contributed to the failure to develo…
Can the Piper Call the Tune? Innovation and Experiment with Deprived Families in Britain, 1940-1980s
In 1948, work with so‐called problem families that had been pioneered by Pacifist Service Units during the war was put on to a permanent peace‐time footing and the organization was renamed Family Service Units (FSU). Because no other agencies were prepared to tackle such work, FSU negotiated a particular space for itself within postwar welfare arrangements. This article will argue that the relative autonomy and distinctiveness that FSU could clai…
Gendering Scottish History
Temporary relief for specially recommended or selected deserving persons’
Twentieth-century voluntary social work organizations became accustomed to altering the emphases of their work in response to changing legislation or shifts in funding priorities. The House of Charity for Distressed Persons in Soho, founded in 1846, provides a nineteenth-century example of a similar phenomenon. The history of its first 70 years suggests that the intention to serve ‘selected deserving persons’ was outweighed by the need to ensure …
The Social Worker Speaks
David Burnham, Farnham/Surrey/Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2012, x+213 pp, ISBN 978-1-4094-3638-6 (hbk) (£55.00), 978-14094-3639-3 (ebk) (£56.65) As its title makes clear, this is not a history of soci
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · History (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 works) · Welfare (2 works)