Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 páginas Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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... ageism is now generally accepted as a seminal statement on the phenomenon , and reflects the origins of anti - ageist approaches in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s . Butler described ageism as the ' systematic ...
... ageism is now generally accepted as a seminal statement on the phenomenon , and reflects the origins of anti - ageist approaches in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s . Butler described ageism as the ' systematic ...
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... ageism , ageism itself and continuity . In each , ageing is in some way irrelevant . Older and younger people only differ in terms of chronological age and difference can be explained by social prejudice on the one hand and failures of ...
... ageism , ageism itself and continuity . In each , ageing is in some way irrelevant . Older and younger people only differ in terms of chronological age and difference can be explained by social prejudice on the one hand and failures of ...
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... ageism , medicine and access Butler's description of gerontology as an optimistic amalgam of science and advocacy ( in Moody 1993 ) reflects a view that the real problem that emerges when medical advances meet ageing adults concerns ...
... ageism , medicine and access Butler's description of gerontology as an optimistic amalgam of science and advocacy ( in Moody 1993 ) reflects a view that the real problem that emerges when medical advances meet ageing adults concerns ...
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