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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
Author(s): Jan Baars (Editor), Joseph Dohmen (Editor), Amanda Grenier (Editor), Chris Phillipson (Editor)
- Publisher: Policy Press
- Publication Date: 30 April 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781447300908
- ISBN-13: 1447300904
Book Description
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 and participatory research. This volume should be valuable reading for scholars and graduate students in gerontology and humanistic studies, as well as for policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of ageing.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
About the Author
Jan Baars, PhD, is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands. His most recent book is Aging and the Art of Life. Joseph Dohmen, PhD, is Professor in Philosophical and Practical Ethics at the University for Humanistic Studies, Netherlands. He has written several books on Nietzsche and Foucault, Art of living and Self care. Amanda Grenier, PhD, is the Gilbrea Chair in Aging and Mental Health, and Associate Professor in Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Canada. She is the author of Transitions and the Lifecourse: Challenging the constructions of ‘growing old’ (Policy Press, 2012). Chris Phillipson, PhD, is Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele, UK.
