Format:
vii, 185 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780739147788
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9780739147771
Note:
Rev. ed. of: Social theory and aging. c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-174) and index
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The relationship of social theory and aging : a critical exegesis -- From galen to the clinic : the birth of biomedicine -- Occidental modernity, the biomedical gaze, and aging -- Theorizing aging : critical explorations of modernist sociological approaches -- Postmodernism, culture, and the aging body -- The "Foucault effect" and aging : relations of power, surveillance and governmentality -- Aging in the "risk society" -- Narrative and aging -- Reconstructions of aging : the case of global aging.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Gerontologie
;
Postmoderne
;
Soziologische Theorie
;
Alterssoziologie
Author information:
Powell, Jason L. 1971-
