{"product_id":"critical-perspectives-on-aging-the-political-and-moral-economy-of-growing-old-policy-politics-health-and-medicine-series-9780895030757","title":"Critical Perspectives on Aging The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old Policy Politics Health and Medicine Series","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Unique Contributions of This Volume Vicente Navarro \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Overview Meredith Minkler\u003cbr\u003eThe New Political Economy of Aging: Introduction and Critique Carroll L. Estes\u003cbr\u003ePolitical and Moral Economy: Not Such Strange Bedfellows Meredith Minkler and Thomas R. Cole\u003cbr\u003eDependency or Empowerment? Toward a Moral and Political Economy of Aging Jon Hendricks and Cynthia A. Leedham \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: New Images of the Old and the Debate over Resource Allocation\u003cbr\u003e \"Generational Equity\" and the New Victim Blaming Meredith Minkler\u003cbr\u003eGold in Gray: Reflections on Business' Discovery of the Elderly Market Meredith Minkler\u003cbr\u003eA Lamb in Wolf's Clothing? The Reality of Senior Power and Social Policy Steven P. Wallace, John B. Williamson, Rita Gaston Lung, and Lawrence A. Powell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Apocalyptic Demography and the Biomedicalization of Aging\u003cbr\u003e The Biomedicalization of Aging: Dangers and Dilemmas Carroll L. Estes and Elizabeth A. Binney\u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Alzheimer's Disease: A Case Study in Apocalyptic Demography Ann Robertson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Critical Perspectives on Market Economy Health Care\u003cbr\u003e The Nursing Home Industry: A Structural Analysis Charlene Harrington\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Economy of Mental Health Care for the Elderly Elizabeth A. Binney and James H. Swan\u003cbr\u003eThe Short Life and Painful Death of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act Martha Holstein and Meredith Minkler \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Race, Class, Gender, and Aging\u003cbr\u003e Older Women in the Post-Reagan Era Terry Arendell and Carroll L. Estes\u003cbr\u003eCommunity Care Policies and Gender Justice Suzanne E. England, Sharon M. Keigher, Baila Miller, and Nathan L. Linsk\u003cbr\u003eGender, Race and Class: Beyond the Feminization of Poverty in Later Life Paula L. Dressel\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Economy of Health Care for Elderly Blacks Steven P. Wallace \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI: Retirement, Social Security, and Economic Dependency\u003cbr\u003e Retirement and the Moral Economy: An Historical Interpretation of the German Case Martin Kohli\u003cbr\u003ePostwar Capitalism and the Extension of Social Security into aRetirement Wage John Myles\u003cbr\u003eDependency among Third World Elderly: A Need for New Direction in the Nineties Sheila M. Neysmith \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VII: Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Future Prospects for Aging Policy Reform Judith Shindul-Rothschild and John B. Williamson\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue Carroll L. Estes\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baywood Publishing Company Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151212736855,"sku":"9780895030757","price":61.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780895030757.jpg?v=1762960432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-perspectives-on-aging-the-political-and-moral-economy-of-growing-old-policy-politics-health-and-medicine-series-9780895030757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}