Voices and Visions of Aging (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Critical Gerontology
Redaktion: Kastenbaum, Robert; Jakobi, Patricia L.; Achenbaum, W. Andrew; Cole, Thomas R.

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the ìthird ageî to critical perspectives on institutional adaptations to an aging society, this book presents a wide range of provocative thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826197917
• Artikelnr.: 44767060

Autorenporträt

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Thomas R. Cole
Contributors
Overview: What is Critical Gerontology and Why Is It Important?,
Harry R. Moody
Part I: Theory/Epistemology/Method
1. Critical Perspectives on Retirement, Robert C. Atchley
2. Aging as Explanation: How Scientific Measurement Can Advance Critical
Gerontology, Fred L. Bookstein and W. Andrew Achenbaum
3. Voice and Context in a New Gerontology, Jaber F. Gubrium
4. Evolutionary Gerontology and Critical Gerontology: Let's Just Be
Friends, Michael R. Rose
5. Criticism between Literature and Gerontology, Steven Weiland
Part II: Humanistic Gerontology
6. Aging, Morale, and Meaning: The Nexus of Narrative, Bertram J. Cohler
7. Rethinking Industrialization: Old Age and the Family Economy, Brian
Gratton and Carole Haber
8. Encrusted Elders: Arizona and the Political Spirit of Postmodern
Aging, Robert Kastenbaum
9. Arrested Aging: The Power of the Past to Make Us Aged and Old,
Laurence B. McCullough
10. Scenes from Primary Care: A Dream in Two Acts, William, F. Monroe in
collaboration with Tomas R. Cole
11. Free to Die: Afterthoughts on Primary Care, Ronald A. Carson
Part III: Political Gerontology/Ideology Critique
12. Toward a Philosophy of the Third Age, Charles J. Fahey and Martha
Holstein
13. Definitional Ceremonies: Depoliticizing and Reenchanting the Culture
of Age, Marc Kaminsky
14. Justice and Mother Love: Toward a Critical Theory of Justice Between
Old and Young, Nancy S. Jecker
15. The Lives of Older Women: Perspectives from Political Economy and the
Humanities, Beverly Ovrebo and Meredith Minkler
Acknowledgments
Index