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Lee Yan Fong Library
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Lee Yan Fong Library |
HQ1061 P684 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | 00002172 |
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.