Fatal Remedies: The Ironies of Social Intervention.

Abstract

I-Theoretical and Political Perspectives.- 1 The Problem in Perspective.- 2 Regressive Intervention in Contemporary Theory and Research.- II-Conversion Mechanisms: Patterns of Reverse Effects and Their Sources.- 3 Functional Disruption.- 4 Exploitation.- 5 Goal Displacement.- 6 Provocation.- 7 Classification.- 8 Overcommitment.- 9 Placation.- III-Summary and Implications for Theory and Policy.- 10 Summary.- 11 Implications for Social Theory.- 12 Implications for Policy.- References.