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Autore: | Estes Carroll L |
Titolo: | Social policy & aging : a critical perspective / / Carroll L. Estes and associates |
Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 286 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 305.26/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Older people - United States |
Aging - United States | |
Older people - Government policy - United States | |
Older people - Medical care - United States | |
Social stratification - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 3. The Medicalization and Commodification of Aging and the Privatization and Rationalization of Old Age PolicyThe Biomedicalization of Aging; The Commodification of Old Age and the Privatization of Medical Care; The Rationalization of Medical Care; Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector: Systemic Crisis and the Political Economy of Aging Services; Shocks to the Nonprofit Sector: Historical Transformation, 1980 to the Present; Crisis Theory; Theorizing the Nonprofit Sector From a Political Economy Framework; Health and Human Services |
The Nonprofit Sector and Crisis: HypothesesConclusion; Chapter 5. Crisis, the Welfare State, and Aging: Ideology and Agency in the Social Security Privatization Debate; Creating a Crisis; The Privatization of Social Security; Media, Think Tanks, and the Disparate Influence of Pro-Privatizert; Capital and the Attack on Social Security; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Sex and Gender in the Political Economy of Aging; The Political Economy of Gender and Old Age; The Situation of Older Women; The Gendered State; Aging and State Theory; Women's Roles, Social Institutions, and Social Policy; Conclusion | |
Chapter 7. Inequality and Aging: The Creation of DependencyCreating Dependency; Population Growth and the Dependency Ratio; Economic and Social Well-Being; Social Class and Health; Social Support and Health; Mortality; Morbidity; Use of Health Care; Conclusion; Chapter 8. The Medical-Industrial Complex and the Aging Enterprise; The Health Care System; The Role of Capital and the Marketplace; The Role of the State; The U.S. Medical-Industrial Complex in a Global Context; Conclusion; Chapter 9. A Political Economy Critique of ""Productive Aging"" | |
The Development of the Productive Aging PerspectiveA Critique; Conclusion; Chapter 10. The Underdevelopment of Community-Based Services in the U. S. Long-Term Care System: A Structural Analysis; Aging and Disability in the United States; Long-Term Care and Community-Based Care; Financial and Industrial Capital; The Role of the State; Professionals and Delivery Systems in Long-Term Care; Conclusion: The Public, Users, and Family Members; Chapter 11. The Political Economy of Health Work; Health Work in the Capitalist Economy; Health Work Policy Environment: The Role of the State | |
Conclusion: A New Perspective on Health Work | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Social policy and aging |
Titolo autorizzato: | Social policy & aging |
ISBN: | 1-5063-3271-4 |
0-8039-7346-2 | |
1-322-41771-7 | |
1-4522-6702-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910806934503321 |
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