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Social Welfare, Aging and Social Theory

John Martyn Chamberlain, Jason Powell, Marty Chamberlain Orcid Logo

Swansea University Author: Marty Chamberlain Orcid Logo

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Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. This book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted scientific approaches to understanding, problematizing, and biomedicalizing aging as akin...

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Published: Rowan and Littlefield 2012
Online Access: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739147771/Social-Welfare-Aging-and-Social-Theory-2nd-Edition
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29697
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Abstract: Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. This book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted scientific approaches to understanding, problematizing, and biomedicalizing aging as akin to an illness and disease. The discussion traces how particular social science theories were developed to reinforce negative perceptions of aging. This book also develops its own reflexive approach with in-depth examples of social welfare in both national and global contexts and a discussion of the theory of aging in the postmodern world where alternative possibilities can be encountered.
Keywords: Health and Aging; Medical Sociology; Social Welfare
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences