The management of aging and the dark side of modernity /
Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and the state. Medico-technical, victimizatio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hauppauge, New York :
Nova Science Publisher's, Inc.,
[2013]
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| Series: | Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,
Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty, |
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| Summary: | Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and the state. Medico-technical, victimization policies and care management discourses, have been presented as adding choice and reducing limitations associated with adult aging. However, they also represent an increase in professional control that can be exerted on lifestyles in older age and thus, the wider social meanings associated with th |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1629485403 9781629485409 |