TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell,Jason L.
TI  - Aging and social policy: a Foucauldian excursion 
T2  - Social perspectives of aging
SN  - 9781536112993
AV  - HQ1061 
U1  - 305.2601 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - NOVA, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Foucault, Michel,
KW  - Aging
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Gerontology
KW  - Older people
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Gérontologie
KW  - Personnes âgées
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - gerontology
KW  - aat
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Gerontologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Åldrandet
KW  - sociala aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Gerontologi
KW  - Äldre
KW  - statlig politik
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Policy discourse and the NHS and Community Care Act (1990): a critical review -- Social theory and the aging body: the importance of theory -- Aging and social theory: a sociological reflection -- Archaeology and genealogy: developments in Foucauldian gerontology -- Foucault, power and social work -- The changing history of social work with older people: a Foucauldian excursion -- Governmentality and aging -- How is old age managed? The disciplinary web of power, surveillance and normalization -- Surveillance and aging: the power of community care -- Technologies of self and aging
N2  - "This new book focuses on five themes that link to a compelling argument in the study of aging and social policy. Firstly, there is a policy context of neo-liberal social policy and implications for older people which is presented, as well as the idea that social construction of aging focuses on 'aging body' and its discursive construction by medical and cultural representations. Additional topics discussed include the history of the present develops ideas and discourses of social welfare and aging; surveillance, power/knowledge and policing of subjects focused on care management and dystopian features of 'care' with related issues of 'elder abuse' and 'institutional abuse'. Reconstructing aging looks at rethinking power relations and technologies of self in how subjects of knowledge can 'resist' medical discourses and professional power."--Publisher description
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