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Title Critical gerontology : perspectives from political and moral economy / edited by Meredith Minkler and Carroll L. Estes
Published Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., [1999]
©1999

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Description v, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Series Policy, politics, health, and medicine series
Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
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
Gerontology Moral and ethical aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gerontology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Gerontology.
Health Services for the Aged.
Ethics, Medical.
Public Policy.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Estes, Carroll L.
Minkler, Meredith.
LC no. 97037071
ISBN 0895031841 (cloth)
089503185X (paper)