Voices and Visions of Aging: Toward a Critical Gerontology

by Thomas Cole PhD (Editor), W. Andrew Achenbaum PhD (Editor), Patricia Jakobi PhD (Editor), Robert Kastenbaum PhD (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826180209
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/15/1992
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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

W. Andrew Achenbaum, PhD, is Deputy Director of the Institute for Gerontology and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

Patricia L. Jakobi, PhD, is Administrative Director of the Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and Assistant Editor, Journal of Aging and Health..

Robert Kastenbaum, PhD, is a professor of communication at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Preface, Thomas R. Cole
Contributors
Overview: What is Critical Gerontology and Why Is It Important?, Harry R. Moody
Part I: Theory/Epistemology/Method
• Critical Perspectives on Retirement, Robert C. Atchley
• Aging as Explanation: How Scientific Measurement Can Advance Critical Gerontology, Fred L. Bookstein and W. Andrew Achenbaum
• Voice and Context in a New Gerontology, Jaber F. Gubrium
• Evolutionary Gerontology and Critical Gerontology: Let’s Just Be Friends, Michael R. Rose
• Criticism between Literature and Gerontology, Steven Weiland
Part II: Humanistic Gerontology
• Aging, Morale, and Meaning: The Nexus of Narrative, Bertram J. Cohler
• Rethinking Industrialization: Old Age and the Family Economy, Brian Gratton and Carole Haber
• Encrusted Elders: Arizona and the Political Spirit of Postmodern Aging, Robert Kastenbaum
• Arrested Aging: The Power of the Past to Make Us Aged and Old, Laurence B. McCullough
• Scenes from Primary Care: A Dream in Two Acts, William, F. Monroe in collaboration with Tomas R. Cole
• Free to Die: Afterthoughts on Primary Care, Ronald A. Carson
Part III: Political Gerontology/Ideology Critique
• Toward a Philosophy of the Third Age, Charles J. Fahey and Martha Holstein
• Definitional Ceremonies: Depoliticizing and Reenchanting the Culture of Age, Marc Kaminsky
• Justice and Mother Love: Toward a Critical Theory of Justice Between Old and Young, Nancy S. Jecker
• The Lives of Older Women: Perspectives from Political Economy and the Humanities, Beverly Ovrebo and Meredith Minkler
Acknowledgments
Index