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1 online resource |
| Series |
Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty, |
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Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The management of aging in the dark side of modernity -- Victimisation, culture and aging -- Discourses of death, culture and aging |
| Summary |
Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and the state. Medico-technical, victimization policies and care management discourses, have been presented as adding choice and reducing limitations associated with adult aging. However, they also represent an increase in professional control that can be exerted on lifestyles in older age and thus, the wider social meanings associated with th |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Older people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Aging -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Older people -- Social conditions
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Powell, Jason L., 1971-
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| ISBN |
9781629485409 |
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1629485403 |
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