Aging and Social Policy: A Foucauldian Excursion - Couverture rigide

Powell, Jason L

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 161209838X ISBN 13 : 9781612098388

Editeur : Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2012

Synopsis

This book focuses on five themes that link to a compelling argument in the study of ageing and social policy. Firstly, there is a policy context of neo-liberal social policy and implications for older people which is presented, as well as the idea that social construction of ageing focuses on 'ageing body' and its discursive construction by medical and cultural representations. Additional topics discussed include the history of the present develops ideas and discourses of social welfare and ageing; surveillance, power/knowledge and policing of subjects focused on care management and dystopian features of 'care' with related issues of 'elder abuse' and 'institutional abuse'. Reconstructing ageing looks at rethinking power relations and technologies of self in how subjects of knowledge can 'resist' medical discourses and professional power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jason L. Powell (Associate Dean of Faculty, Coventry University, UK) and Sheying Chen (Pace University, New York, NY, USA)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 161209838X
• ISBN 13: 9781612098388
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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