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Book Synopsis
This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).

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This book will contribute most significantly to our reinterpretation of aging and how it is thought about in social work… This is a wonderfully welcome addition to the literature on aging. -- Allen Irving, University of Western Ontario

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis Chapter 2 Occidental Modernity, The Bio-Medical Gaze and Aging Chapter 3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches Chapter 4 Postmodernism, Culture and Aging Body Chapter 5 The 'Foucault Effect' and Aging: Relations ofPower, Surveillance and Governmentality Chapter 6 Aging in the 'Risk Society' Chapter 7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging

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      Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
      Publication Date: 11/17/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780742519541, 978-0742519541
      ISBN10: 0742519546

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).

      Trade Review
      This book will contribute most significantly to our reinterpretation of aging and how it is thought about in social work… This is a wonderfully welcome addition to the literature on aging. -- Allen Irving, University of Western Ontario

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis Chapter 2 Occidental Modernity, The Bio-Medical Gaze and Aging Chapter 3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches Chapter 4 Postmodernism, Culture and Aging Body Chapter 5 The 'Foucault Effect' and Aging: Relations ofPower, Surveillance and Governmentality Chapter 6 Aging in the 'Risk Society' Chapter 7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging

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