| Description |
xli, 322 pages ; ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Overview : what is critical gerontology and why is it important? / Harry R. Moody -- Critical perspectives on retirement / Robert C. Atchley -- Aging as explanation : how scientific measurement can advance critical gerontology / Fred L. Bookstein and W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Voice and context in a new gerontology / Jaber F. Gubrium -- Evolutionary gerontology and critical gerontology : let's just be friends / Michael R. Rose -- Criticism between literature and gerontology / Steven Weiland -- Aging, morale, and meaning : the nexus of narrative / Bertram J. Cohler -- Rethinking industrialization : old age and the family economy / Brian Gratton and Carole Haber -- Encrusted elders : Arizona and the political spirit of postmodern aging / Robert Kastenbaum -- Arrested aging : the power of the past to make us aged and old / Laurence B. McCullough -- Scenes from Primary care : a drama in two acts / William F. Monroe in collaboration with Thomas R. Cole -- Free to die : afterthoughts on Primary care / Ronald A. Carson -- Toward a philosophy of the third age / Charles J. Fahey and Martha Holstein -- Definitional ceremonies : depoliticizing and reenchanting the culture of age / Marc Kaminsky -- Justice and mother love : toward a critical theory of justice between old and young / Nancy S. Jecker -- The lives of older women : perspectives from political economy and the humanities / Beverly Ovrebo and Meredith Minkler. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Gerontology.
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Gerontology -- Methodology.
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Aging -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
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| ISBN |
0826180205 |
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