Autorentext

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Klappentext

A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the "third age" to critical perspectives on institutional adaptations to an aging society, this book presents a wide range of provocative thought.

Inhalt

1. Critical Perspectives on Retirement, Robert C. Atchley

2. Aging as Explanation: How Scientific Measurement Can Advance Critical Gerontology, Fred L. Bookstein and W. Andrew Achenbaum

3. Voice and Context in a New Gerontology, Jaber F. Gubrium

4. Evolutionary Gerontology and Critical Gerontology: Let's Just Be Friends, Michael R. Rose

5. Criticism between Literature and Gerontology, Steven Weiland
   Part II: Humanistic Gerontology

6. Aging, Morale, and Meaning: The Nexus of Narrative, Bertram J. Cohler

7. Rethinking Industrialization: Old Age and the Family Economy, Brian Gratton and Carole Haber

8. Encrusted Elders: Arizona and the Political Spirit of Postmodern Aging, Robert Kastenbaum

9. Arrested Aging: The Power of the Past to Make Us Aged and Old, Laurence B. McCullough

10. Scenes from Primary Care: A Dream in Two Acts, William, F. Monroe in collaboration with Tomas R. Cole

11. Free to Die: Afterthoughts on Primary Care, Ronald A. Carson
    Part III: Political Gerontology/Ideology Critique

12. Toward a Philosophy of the Third Age, Charles J. Fahey and Martha Holstein

13. Definitional Ceremonies: Depoliticizing and Reenchanting the Culture of Age, Marc Kaminsky

14. Justice and Mother Love: Toward a Critical Theory of Justice Between Old and Young, Nancy S. Jecker

15. The Lives of Older Women: Perspectives from Political Economy and the Humanities, Beverly Ovrebo and Meredith Minkler
    Acknowledgments
    Index