Entries by Stephan Krayter

New Publication: Medicalisation and psychologisation of poverty? An analysis of the scientific poverty discourse from 1956 to 2017

7. October 2020 in , /by

Stephan Krayter and Nadine Reibling just published a systematic review of scientific publications on poverty in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. In this article, the authors ask whether medical and psychological disciplines are increasingly publishing on poverty and whether they are outpacing economic and legal disciplines. The results indicate that this is indeed […]

MEPYSO junior research team – extended.

17. August 2020 in , /by

The Funding Network Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (FIS) of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) has approved the second phase of our research project. The team is excited about two more years of social policy research (until 7/31/2022).  Our focus will be summarizing our results in our planned book and developing further […]

Project Seminar in MEPYSO

17. August 2020 in , /by

In the past semester, students collected data with an extended version of our vignette study within the context of a project seminar entitled “Only difficult or ill? A project seminar on the medicalization of child behavior?”. The data were collected with 625 students and employees of the university of Siegen. The respondents have similar attitudes […]

MEPYSO at the FIS-Forum in Berlin, 08.-09.10.2019

17. October 2019 in , /by

Also this year, the MEPYSO team was represented at the Forum of Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (FIS) of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Berlin. Current work of FIS-funded scientists was presented there under the motto “Dialogue, Strategy and Networking”. Dr. Nadine Reibling, Mareike Ariaans, Stephan Krayter and Philipp Linden presented current […]

MEPYSO at ESPANET Conference in Stockholm, September 5-7, 2019

16. August 2019 in , /by

From September 5th to 7th 2019 the MEPYSO project participated at the ESPANET conference in Stockholm and presented two current research articles: Philipp Linden & Nadine Reibling: Medicalization as alternative path through welfare? Determinants of the transition from unemployment to a medical leave status in the German social policy system. Stephan Krayter & Nadine Reibling: Has […]

MEPYSO at the RC 19 in Mannheim, August 28-30, 2019

15. August 2019 in /by

The MEPYSO team was represented at the RC19 in Mannheim with the following three contributions: Philipp Linden & Nadine Reibling: Medicalization as alternative path through welfare? Determinants of the transition from unemployment to a medical leave status in the German social policy system. Stephan Krayter & Nadine Reibling: An analysis of the scientific poverty discourse. […]

New Publication in Europe Now: Engine or Breaks? European Welfare States and the Medicalization of Social Problems

1. August 2019 in , /by

As part of the special feature Public Health in Europe a paper by Nadine Reibling was published on the question how the welfare state affects, to what extent doctors and medication are used to deal with social problems. The paper shows that social and health policy are crucial for medicalization processes, e.g. pharmaceutical regulation is […]