Aging, globalization and inequality : the new critical gerontology /
Aging, globalization and inequality : the new critical gerontology /
edited by Jan Baars ... [et al.].
- London : Routledge, 2017.
- viii, 291 p. : ill.
- Society and aging series .
- Society and aging series .
Reprint. Originally published: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Critical perspectives in social gerontology / Jan Baars [and others] -- Beyond neomodernism, antimodernism, and postmodernism : basic categories for contemporary critical gerontology / Jan Baars -- Aging and globalization : issues for critical gerontology and political economy / Chris Phillipson -- Reexamining the political economy of aging : understanding the structure/agency tension / Alan Walker -- Critical feminist perspectives, aging, and social policy / Carroll Estes -- Reciprocal co-optation : the relationship of critical theory and social gerontology / Dale Dannefer -- From chronology to functionality : critical reflections on the gerontology of the body / Stephen Katz -- Empowering the old : critical gerontology and anti-aging in a global context / Neil King and Toni Calasanti -- Dementia in the iron cage : the biopsychiatric construction of Alzheimer's dementia / Kathryn Douthit -- Emerging postmodern culture of aging and retirement security / Larry Polivka and Charles F. Longino, Jr. -- Dynamics of late-life inequality : modeling the interplay of health disparities, economic resources, and public policies / Stephen Crystal -- Health, aging, and America's poor : ethnographic insights on family co-morbidity and cumulative disadvantage / Linda M. Burton and Keith E. Whitfield -- Culture, migration, inequality, and "periphery" in a globalized world : challenges for ethno- and anthropogerontology / Sandra Torres -- Globalization and critical theory : political economy of world population issues / John A. Vincent.
9780415783941 0415783941
Gerontology.
Older people--Social conditions--21st century.
Aging--Social aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Age discrimination.
HQ1061 / .A4585 2017
Reprint. Originally published: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Critical perspectives in social gerontology / Jan Baars [and others] -- Beyond neomodernism, antimodernism, and postmodernism : basic categories for contemporary critical gerontology / Jan Baars -- Aging and globalization : issues for critical gerontology and political economy / Chris Phillipson -- Reexamining the political economy of aging : understanding the structure/agency tension / Alan Walker -- Critical feminist perspectives, aging, and social policy / Carroll Estes -- Reciprocal co-optation : the relationship of critical theory and social gerontology / Dale Dannefer -- From chronology to functionality : critical reflections on the gerontology of the body / Stephen Katz -- Empowering the old : critical gerontology and anti-aging in a global context / Neil King and Toni Calasanti -- Dementia in the iron cage : the biopsychiatric construction of Alzheimer's dementia / Kathryn Douthit -- Emerging postmodern culture of aging and retirement security / Larry Polivka and Charles F. Longino, Jr. -- Dynamics of late-life inequality : modeling the interplay of health disparities, economic resources, and public policies / Stephen Crystal -- Health, aging, and America's poor : ethnographic insights on family co-morbidity and cumulative disadvantage / Linda M. Burton and Keith E. Whitfield -- Culture, migration, inequality, and "periphery" in a globalized world : challenges for ethno- and anthropogerontology / Sandra Torres -- Globalization and critical theory : political economy of world population issues / John A. Vincent.
9780415783941 0415783941
Gerontology.
Older people--Social conditions--21st century.
Aging--Social aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Age discrimination.
HQ1061 / .A4585 2017