ISBN:
9781629485409
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1629485403
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9781629485331
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1629485330
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
Series Statement:
Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Management of aging and the dark side of modernity
DDC:
305.260941
Keywords:
Aging / Social conditions / Great Britain
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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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Aging Social conditions
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Großbritannien
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- The management of aging in the dark side of modernity -- Victimisation, culture and aging -- Discourses of death, culture and aging
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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