Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
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This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the biomedicalization of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind senior power; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0895030756
ISBN13:9780895030757
Release Date:June 1990
Publisher:Routledge
Length:362 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
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