The "management of aging" and the dark side of modernity / editor, Jason L. Powell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powell, Jason L., 1971-

Series:

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,

Social perspectives in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--Social conditions--Great Britain.

Aging.

Older people--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (44 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

""THE ""MANAGEMENT OF AGING"" AND THE DARK SIDE OF MODERNITY""; ""THE ""MANAGEMENT OF AGING"" AND THE DARK SIDE OF MODERNITY""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter 2: THE “MANAGEMENT OF AGING� IN THE DARK SIDE OF MODERNITY""; ""PROBLEMATIZING AGEING""; ""WHY FOUCAULT?""; ""THE 'GAZE' OF MEDICAL POWER""; ""'SURVEILLANCE' AND THE 'MIXED ECONOMY OF WELFARE'""; ""NORMALISATION AND THE PROBE OF ASSESSMENT""; ""RESISTING DOMINATION?""; ""POST-MILLENNIUM - A ROAD TO NOWHERE?""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-540-3

OCLC:

918624354