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Readings in the Political Economy of Aging - Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
1984
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-042-9 (ISBN)
CHF 144,85 inkl. MwSt
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Meredith Minkler is Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Carroll L. Estes is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the founding and former director of the Institute for Health & Aging (1979-98) and the former Chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF.

Preface

Introduction: Challenge to a New Age Maggie Kuhn

Chapter 1. Introduction Meredith Minkler

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGING
Chapter 2. Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Aging Carroll L. Estes, James H. Swan and Lenore E. Gerard Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Governments Cuts for the Elderly Vicente Navarro

Chapter 4. Social Control of the Elderly Linda Evans and John B. Williamson

PART II. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: SOCIAL CONTROL AND MARKET ECONOMY HEALTH CARE
Chapter 5. Community Care and the Elderly in Great Britain: Theory and Practice Alan Walker Chapter 6. Mental Illness and the Aged Stranger James J. Dowd

Chapter 7. Medicare and Medicaid: The Process, Value and Limits of Health Care Reforms E. Richard Brown

Chapter 8. Public Policy and the Nursing Home Industry Charlene Harrington

PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: INCOME, LABOR AND CONTROL OF CAPITAL
Chapter 9. Reframing the Agenda of Policies on Aging Robert H. Binstock Chapter 10. Conflict, Crisis and the Future of Old Age Security John F. Myles

Chapter 11. Retirement and the Origins of Age Discrimination William Graebner

PART IV. AGING AS A WOMEN'S ISSUE
Chapter 12. Why Is Women's Lib Ignoring Old Women? Myrna I. Lewis and Robert N. Butler Chapter 13. Women and the Economics of Aging Carroll L. Estes, Lenore E. Gerard and Adele Clarke

Chapter 14. The Sociopolitical Context of Women's Retirement Robyn Stone and Meredith Minkler

PART V. FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR THE ELDERLY
Chapter 15. Austerity and Aging: 1980 and Beyond Carroll L. Estes Chapter 16. Blaming the Aged Victim: The Politics of Retrenchmentin Times of Fiscal Conservatism Meredith Minkler

Epilogue

Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.6.1984
Reihe/Serie Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Verlagsort Amityville
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 0-89503-042-X / 089503042X
ISBN-13 978-0-89503-042-9 / 9780895030429
Zustand Neuware
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