Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory

Informationen zum Autor By Jason L Powell and John Martyn Chamberlain Klappentext This book explores biomedical and sociological theories of aging and their inter-relationship to historical, contemporary and future issues affecting social welfare and older people. Zusammenfassung This book explores biomedical and sociological theories of aging and their inter-relationship to historical! contemporary and future issues affecting social welfare and older people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical ExegesisPart I. Modern Constructions of AgingChapter 2: From Galen to the Clinic: the Birth of BiomedicineChapter 3: Occidental Modernity, the Biomedical Gaze, and AgingChapter 4: Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological ApproachesPart II. Postmodern Deconstructions of AgingChapter 5: Postmodernism, Culture, and the Aging BodyChapter 6: The "Foucault Effect" and Aging: Relations of Power, Surveillance and GovernmentalityChapter 7: Aging in the "Risk Society"Chapter 8: Narrative and AgingChapter 9: Reconstructions of Aging: The Case of Global AgingChapter 10: Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging

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• Authors: John Martyn Chamberlain, Chamberlain John Martyn, Jason Powell, Jason L Powell, Jason L. Powell, Jason/ Chamberlain Powell
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739147788
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4778-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Care of the elderly, Age groups: the elderly, aging;Gerontology;sociology;sociology theory and methods