Social welfare, aging, and social theory / Jason L. Powell and John Martyn Chamberlain.

Author: Powell, Jason L., 1971-

Imprint:Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2012.

Descriptionvii, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Rev. ed. of: Social theory and aging. c2006.

Note:The relationship of social theory and aging : a critical exegesis -- From galen to the clinic : the birth of biomedicine -- Occidental modernity, the biomedical gaze, and aging -- Theorizing aging : critical explorations of modernist sociological approaches -- Postmodernism, culture, and the aging body -- The "Foucault effect" and aging : relations of power, surveillance and governmentality -- Aging in the "risk society" -- Narrative and aging -- Reconstructions of aging : the case of global aging.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-174) and index.

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