Voices and Visions of Aging : Toward a Critical Gerontology - W. Andrew Achenbaum

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Voices and Visions of Aging

Toward a Critical Gerontology

By: W. Andrew Achenbaum, Thomas R. Cole

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Hardcover | 30 December 1992

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A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the "third age" to critical perspectives on institutional adaptations to an aging society, this book presents a wide range of provocative thought.

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Preface
Contributors
Overview: What is Critical Gerontology and Why Is It Important?
Theory/Epistemology/Method
Critical Perspectives on Retirement	p. 3
Aging as Explanation: How Scientific Measurement Can Advance Critical Gerontology	p. 20
Voice and Context in a New Gerontology	p. 46
Evolutionary Gerontology and Critical Gerontology: Let's Just Be Friends	p. 64
Criticism between Literature and Gerontology	p. 76
Humanistic Gerontology
Aging, Morale, and Meaning: The Nexus of Narrative	p. 107
Rethinking Industrialization: Old Age and the Family Economy	p. 134
Encrusted Elders: Arizona and the Political Spirit of Postmodern Aging	p. 160
Arrested Aging: The Power of the Past to Make Us Aged and Old	p. 184
Scenes from Primary Care: A Drama in Two Acts	p. 205
Free to Die: Afterthoughts on Primary Care	p. 235
Political Gerontology/Ideology Critique
Toward a Philosophy of the Third Age	p. 241
Definitional Ceremonies: Depoliticizing and Reenchanting the Culture of Age	p. 257
Justice and Mother Love: Toward A Critical Theory of Justice between Old and Young	p. 275
The Lives of Older Women: Perspectives from Political Economy and the Humanities	p. 289
Acknowledgments	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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