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Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden
| Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
| Autore | Brogden Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
| Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-84642-276-0
1-4175-0444-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455700303321 |
Brogden Michael
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| London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden
| Geronticide [[electronic resource] ] : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
| Autore | Brogden Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
| Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
| ISBN |
1-84642-276-0
1-4175-0444-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780335503321 |
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Brogden Michael
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| London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Geronticide : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden
| Geronticide : killing the elderly / / Mike Brogden |
| Autore | Brogden Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.15/23/0846 |
| Soggetto topico |
Age discrimination - United States
Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States |
| ISBN |
9781846422768
1846422760 9781417504442 1417504447 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Geronticide: Killing the Elderly -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Living too Long? -- Introduction -- The social context of ageing and geronticide -- Is longer life possible? -- Science and increasing the lifespan -- Ageing and decline: Consequences of extending the lifespan -- Outline of the book -- Geronticide and the elderly: Definitions -- 2. Death by Demography and Longevity -- The Problem of Longevity -- Population ageing in Western society -- Non-industrial societies and the demographic time bomb -- The dependency ratio and the social crisis -- Gender and the demography of ageing -- Social class and demography -- Ethnicity and the ageing population -- Demography and a finite food supply -- The social costs of the increasing elderly dependent population -- The cost of care -- Death-hastening by rationing -- Depression and self-killing amongst the elderly -- Limitations to the demographic time bomb thesis -- Responding to the critics -- Continuity in geronticide -- 3. Death by Social Obligation: The Political Economy Thesis -- Political economy: The elderly as non-producers -- Insights from patriarchy and from Marxist studies -- Nostalgia over primitive society -- The hunter-gatherer thesis -- The young-old versus the old-old -- Death-hastening in primitive society -- Ritual demarcation allowing geronticide: Concluding liminal status -- The liminal status passage -- Infanticide and geronticide -- Criticisms of political economy -- 4. Death by Attrition: Modernisation and the Workhouse -- Introduction -- The modernisation process -- Modernisation and social differentiation -- Modernisation and convergence -- Ageist ideology's contribution to death-hastening -- Inequality and uneven exposure to geronticide -- 5. Death by Degrees: Bureaucratisation in Care Institutions -- Introduction: The bureaucratisation of death.
Dying in 'care' -- Making ready for death: the community-institution divide -- Abuse in institutional settings -- Making death 'ordinary' -- Ethnography of elderly death-hastening -- Direct death-hastening: 'Do not resuscitate' -- Regulation and inspection -- Elderly care as a business enterprise: 'Culling sheep or cattle' 46 -- Overview -- 6. Death in Literary Discourse -- Killing the elderly in literature -- Elderly defence against geronticide: Ashliman's collection -- Past to future: Science fiction and geronticide -- Death-hastening in the care and nursing home -- Ageism and the liminal status of the elderly -- Voluntary euthanasia -- Overview -- 7. Death by Choice?: Physician-assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia -- Introduction -- A brief history of suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- The situation today -- Voluntarism: Ageism, material and cultural pressures -- From physician-assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia -- Aspects of the debate -- Vagueness of professional controls -- Pain relief ? Or alleviation of psychosocial problems? -- The long-term care alternative -- Patient autonomy versus medical autonomy -- Overview -- 8. Dr Shipman, Social Rights, and Preventing Geronticide -- Who kills the elderly? -- Professionalism and the case of Dr Harold Shipman -- Checking Geronticide -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910968860803321 |
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Brogden Michael
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| London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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