Foucault and aging
By: Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin, editor[s].
Contributors: Powell, Jason L., 1971-; Wahidin, Azrini, 1972-
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Foucault, Michel.; Gerontology.; Aging -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploring Foucault and bio-medical gerontology in Western modernity / Jason L. Powell, Simon Biggs, and Azrini Wahidin; title: "The relentlessness and the ruin" : Beckett, Foucault, and aging / Allan Irving; title: Foucault and successful aging as discourse : explorations in biopower and the practice of freedom / Cynthia A. Leedham and Jon Hendrics; title: Invisible bodies : older women and multiple sclerosis / Louise Dawson; title: Food and aging / John Coveney; title: Governmentality, health and aging : re-figuring the third age / Tony Gilbert; title: Visibility and consent : the sexual abuse of elderly women / Helen Jones; title: Interpersonal acts within organisational practices : power and resistance within public health and social care for older persons / Amanda Grenier and Peter Leonard; title: A Foucauldian analysis : experiences of elders in prison / Azrini Wahidin; title: Theories of aging - Foucault's agonistic challenge / Ian Culpitt; title: Age and aging : the social world of Foucault and Bourdieu / Alex Dumas and Bryan S. Turner; title: Beyond discourse : recognising bare life among the very old / Haim Hazan; title: Negotiating the spaces of old age / David Sibley; title: Towards a post-Foucauldian sociology of aging / Tim Owen.