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" Disciplining old age : "
Stephen Katz.
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892376
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Katz, Stephen,1952-
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Disciplining old age : : the formation of gerontological knowledge /\ Stephen Katz.
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Charlottesville :: University Press of Virginia,, 1996.
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Knowledge, disciplinarity and beyond
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x, 209 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0813916615
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: 0813916623
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: 9780813916613
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: 9780813916620
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Disciplinary Knowledge and Gerontological Subjects -- 1. The Aged Body and the Discourse of Senescence -- 2. The Elderly Population and the Modern Life-Course -- 3. Textual Formations and the Science of Old Age -- 4. The Field of Gerontology and Problematizations of Old Age -- Conclusions: Undisciplining Old Age.
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The continuing growth in population of older people has spurred heated debate about healthcare politics, social security, and industrial and intergenerational relations. Along the line, gerontology has sprung up and flourished as a discipline. Katz deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web." He begins with a look at how the study of old age and the sciences of gerontology emerged recently as disciplines and what social, political, organizational, and epistemological conditions made their emergence possible. He then looks at how medicine has transformed the aged body into an inherently separate, boxed-off subject --an illness. In subsequent chapters 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 has built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies and "schools of thought."
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Gerontology.
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Old age-- Study and teaching.
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Older people-- Social conditions-- Study and teaching.
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Aged.
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Geriatrics.
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Knowledge.
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Teaching.
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Gérontologie.
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Personnes âgées-- Conditions sociales-- Étude et enseignement.
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Vieillesse-- Étude et enseignement.
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Altern
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Gerontologie
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Gerontology.
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Old age-- Study and teaching.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.26
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HQ1061.K388 1996
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MS 2700rvk
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