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This important new book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective to review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bernard, Miriam, Scharf, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy, 2007.
Series:Ageing and the lifecourse.
Subjects:
Older people > Social conditions.
Gerontology.
Older people.
Social change.
Social justice.
Aged
Social Change
Health Policy > trends
Social Justice
Geriatrics
Personnes âgées > Conditions sociales.
Gérontologie.
Personnes âgées.
Changement social.
Justice sociale.
gerontology.
elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.
Alternde Bevölkerung
Gesellschaft
Gerontologie
Alterssoziologie.
Alter.
Lebenssituation.
Intergeneratives Verhältnis.
Überalterung.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Critical perspectives on ageing societies / Miriam Bernard, Thomas Scharf
  • Critical gerontology : reflections for the 21st century / Martha B. Holstein, Meredith Minkler
  • Using human rights to defeat ageism : dealing with policy-induced 'structured dependency' / Peter Townsend
  • The re-medicalisation of later life / Robin Means
  • Narratives as agents of social change : a new direction for narrative gerontologists / Ruth E. Ray
  • Redressing the balance? The participation of older people in research / Mo Ray
  • Revisiting The Last Refuge : present-day methodological challenges / Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith
  • The road to an age-inclusive society / Bill Bytheway [and others]
  • Justice between generations : the recent history of an idea / Harry R. Moody
  • Progress in gerontology : where are we going now? / Tony Warnes, Judith Phillips.

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