The management of aging and the dark side of modernity
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, victimizatio...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hauppauge, New York :
Nova Science Publisher's, Inc
[2013]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Social Perspectives in the 21st century. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32485220*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Incluye índice. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781629485409 |
