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Social welfare, aging, and social theory /

by Powell, Jason L; Chamberlain, John Martyn; Powell, Jason L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012Description: vi, 185 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780739147771 (cloth : alk. paper); 0739147773 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780739147788 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0739147781 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Gerontology -- Philosophy | Aging | Postmodernism
Contents:
The relationship of social theory and aging : a critical exegesis -- From galen to the clinic : the birth of biomedicine -- Occidental modernity, the biomedical gaze, and aging -- Theorizing aging : critical explorations of modernist sociological approaches -- Postmodernism, culture, and the aging body -- The "Foucault effect" and aging : relations of power, surveillance and governmentality -- Aging in the "risk society" -- Narrative and aging -- Reconstructions of aging: the case of global aging -- Conclusion: reconstructions of aging.
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Rev. ed. of: Social theory and aging. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The relationship of social theory and aging : a critical exegesis -- From galen to the clinic : the birth of biomedicine -- Occidental modernity, the biomedical gaze, and aging -- Theorizing aging : critical explorations of modernist sociological approaches -- Postmodernism, culture, and the aging body -- The "Foucault effect" and aging : relations of power, surveillance and governmentality -- Aging in the "risk society" -- Narrative and aging -- Reconstructions of aging: the case of global aging -- Conclusion: reconstructions of aging.

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