Social welfare, aging, and social theory
By: Jason L. Powell and John Martyn Chamberlain
Contributors: Chamberlain, John Martyn, 1972-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780739147771; 9780739147788
Subjects: Aging; Gerontology; Philosophy; Postmodernism
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Social theory and aging. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: The relationship of social theory and aging : a critical exegesis; title: From galen to the clinic : the birth of biomedicine; title: Occidental modernity, the biomedical gaze, and aging; title: Theorizing aging : critical explorations of modernist sociological approaches; title: Postmodernism, culture, and the aging body; title: The "Foucault effect" and aging : relations of power, surveillance and governmentality; title: Aging in the "risk society"; title: Narrative and aging; title: Reconstructions of aging : the case of global aging.