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9780813916620

Disciplining Old Age : The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge

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    9780813916620

  • ISBN10:

    0813916623

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
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Summary

In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web." Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology as built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies, and "schools of thought."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disciplinary Knowledge and Gerontological Subjectsp. 1
The Aged Body and the Discourse of Senescencep. 27
The Elderly Population and the Modern Life-Coursep. 49
Textual Formations and the Science of Old Agep. 77
The Field of Gerontology and Problematizations of Old Agep. 104
Conclusions: Undisciplining Old Agep. 135
Notesp. 145
Bibliographyp. 167
Indexp. 203
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