Aging, globalization, and inequality : the new critical gerontology

edited by Jan Baars ... [et al.]
Baywood Pub., c2006
viii, 291 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
書
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Pavilion 研學館 Books CollectionHQ1061 .A45 2006Available
  • 1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives in Social Gerontology
  • Section 1: Dimensions of Critical Gerontology
  • 2. Beyond Neomodernism, Antimodernism, and Postmodernism: Basic Categories for Contemporary Critical Gerontology
  • 3. Aging and Globalization: Issues for Critical Gerontology and Political Economy
  • 4. Reexamining the Political Economy of Aging: Understanding the Structure/Agency Tension
  • 5. Critical Feminist Perspectives, Aging, and Social Policy
  • 6. Reciprocal Co-Optation: The Relationship of Critical Theory and Social Gerontology
  • Section 2: Critical Dimensions of Medicalization: Aging and Health as Cultural Products
  • 7. From Chronology to Functionality: Critical Reflections on the Gerontology of the Body
  • 8. Empowering the Old: Critical Gerontology and Anti-Aging in a Global Context
  • 9. Dementia in the Iron Cage: The Biopsychiatric Construction of Alzheimer's Dementia
  • Section 3: Age and Inequality: local, National, and Global Dynamics
  • 10. The Emerging Postmodern Culture of Aging and Retirement Security
  • 11. Dynamics of Late-Life Inequality: Modeling the Interplay of Health Disparities, Economic Resources, and Public Policies
  • 12. Health, Aging, and America's Poor: Ethnographic Insights on Family Co-morbidity and Cumulative Disadvantage
  • 13. Culture, Migration, Inequality, and "Periphery" in a Globalized World: Challenges for Ethno- and Anthropogerontology
  • 14. Globalization and Critical Theory: Political Economy of World Population Issues.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub
  • 0895033585 (cloth)
  • 9780895033581
  • http://library1.hkct.edu.hk:82/opac/bib/ALid
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