Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 pages Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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Page 74
... further exacerbation of inequity in later life ( Phil- lipson 1998 ) . Productivity provides a solution to the inclusion of older people in the dominant values of society with no need for new services to compensate for the social ...
... further exacerbation of inequity in later life ( Phil- lipson 1998 ) . Productivity provides a solution to the inclusion of older people in the dominant values of society with no need for new services to compensate for the social ...
Page 96
... further argument , elaborated below , is more Foucauldian in its critique in so far as it examines how the medical gaze modifies the way in which old age and biomedicine are perceived and the self is experienced . Looking at the finer ...
... further argument , elaborated below , is more Foucauldian in its critique in so far as it examines how the medical gaze modifies the way in which old age and biomedicine are perceived and the self is experienced . Looking at the finer ...
Page 126
... further below ) ; second , through the experience of marginalization created by compulsory retirement ; third , through the influence of more generalized patterns of discrimination - subsequently termed ' ageism ' - experienced by older ...
... further below ) ; second , through the experience of marginalization created by compulsory retirement ; third , through the influence of more generalized patterns of discrimination - subsequently termed ' ageism ' - experienced by older ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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