Critical Perspectives on Aging by Carroll Estes (Paperback Book)

Name: Critical Perspectives on Aging by Carroll Estes (Paperback Book)
Brand: Baywood Publishing Company Inc

Baywood Publishing Company Inc

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the \""biomedicalization\"" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind \""senior power\""; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.\n\nCritical Perspectives on Aging\nThe Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertised is as low as we can go, we;