Aging and social policy
Subtitle: a Foucauldian excursion
By: Jason L. Powell
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers; Nova Science Pub Inc; Brand: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781612098388
Subjects: Social aspects; Aging; Gerontology; Government policy; Older people
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Policy discourse and the NHS and Community Care Act (1990): a critical review; title: Social theory and the aging body: the importance of theory; title: Aging and social theory: a sociological reflection; title: Archaeology and genealogy: developments in Foucauldian gerontology; title: Foucault, power and social work; title: The changing history of social work with older people: a Foucauldian excursion; title: Governmentality and aging; title: How is old age managed? The disciplinary web of power, surveillance and normalization; title: Surveillance and aging: the power of community care; title: Technologies of self and aging.