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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
Jan Baars
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Description for Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
Paperback. A wide range of contributors focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work and participatory research. Editor(s): Baars, Jan; Dohmen, Joseph; Grenier, Amanda; Phillipson, Professor Chris. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSP31. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 342.
Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanistic perspectives on issues of existential meaning. The chapters, from a wide range of contributors, focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work ... Read more
Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanistic perspectives on issues of existential meaning. The chapters, from a wide range of contributors, focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
POLICY PRESS
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447300892
SKU
V9781447300892
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99-50
About Jan Baars
Jan Baars is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands. His most recent book is Aging and the Art of Life. Joseph Dohmen is Professor in Philosophical and Practical Ethics at the University for Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands. He has written several books on Nietzsche and Foucault, art of living and self care. Amanda Grenier is ... Read more
Reviews for Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
"A much-needed integration of two relatively new but flourishing areas of ageing studies, which have developed separately up to now. I gained fresh insights from each and every chapter." Peter G. Coleman, Professor of Psychogerontology, University of Southampton