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The management of aging and the dark side of modernity / editor, Jason L. Powell (University of Central Lancashire, UK).

Published
Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2013]
Copyright Date
©2014
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Powell, Jason L., 1971-
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Contents
Introduction -- The management of aging in the dark side of modernity -- Victimisation, culture and aging -- Discourses of death, culture and aging.
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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ISBN
9781629485409 (electronic bk.)
1629485403 (electronic bk.)
9781629485331
1629485330
Note
Includes index.
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