Description |
v, 390 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Policy, politics, health, and medicine series |
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Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
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Contents |
Critical gerontology and the new political economy of aging / Carroll L. Estes -- Political and moral economy: getting to know one another / Meredith Minkler and Thomas R. Cole -- Interdependency and the generational compact / Malcolm L. Johnson -- Beyond apocalyptic demography: toward a moral economy of interdependence / Ann Robertson -- Disability theory and public policy: implications for critical gerontology / Jae Kennedy and Meredith Minkler -- Special interests or citizens' rights? "Senior power", Social Security, and Medicare / Debra Street -- The aging enterprise revisited / Carroll L. Estes -- Moral economy and the social construction of the crisis of aging and health care: differing Canadian and U.S. perspectives / Phillip G. Clark -- Devolution and aging policy: racing to the bottom in long-term care / Carroll L. Estes and Karen W. Linkins -- Impacts of the proposed restructuring of Medicare and Medicaid on the elderly: a conceptual framework and analysis / Marty Lynch and Meredith Minkler -- Vouchers for Medicare: a critical reappraisal / Jonathan Oberlander -- The nursing home industry: the failure of reform efforts / Charlene Harrington -- Caught in the hostile cross-fire: public policy and minority elderly in the United States / Steven P. Wallace and Valentine M. Villa -- Caregiving, age, and class in the skeleton of the welfare state: "And Jill came tumbling after ..." Joanna K. Weinberg -- Gender, race, class, and aging: advances and opportunities / Paula Dressel, Meredith Minkler, and Irene Yen -- The path to poverty: an analysis of women's retirement income / Older Women's League -- The social construction of retirement: perspectives from critical theory and political economy / Chris Phillipson -- The evolution of the welfare state: shifting rights and responsibilities for the old / Robert B. Hudson -- Social Security: marketing radical reform / Eric Kingson and Jill Quadagno -- Women and productive aging: troubling implications / Martha Holstein |
Analysis |
Gerontology |
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Gerontology Moral and ethical aspects |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Gerontology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Gerontology.
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Health Services for the Aged.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Public Policy.
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SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
Author |
Estes, Carroll L.
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Minkler, Meredith.
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LC no. |
97037071 |
ISBN |
0895031841 (cloth) |
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089503185X (paper) |
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