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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Other Authors: Powell, Jason L., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2013]
Series:Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Associate Dean of Faculty,
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The management of aging in the dark side of modernity
  • Victimisation, culture and aging
  • Discourses of death, culture and aging.