Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change

2002. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-4020-0183-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 10/11/12, 261 Seiten, Gewicht: 1 g

Reihe: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

is the first of three volumes on conceived for the . Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy. How we approach and understand "aging" will have indelible effects on existing and future elder citizens. Acknowledging the cultural variances that exist in the human experience of aging is therefore of vital importance in order to respond to individual needs in a manner that is not paternalistic, discriminatory, or exclusionary.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weisstub, David N

Thomasma, David C

Gauthier, S.

Tomossy, G F

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Acknowledgments. Contributors. Paradigms. Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective; Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics; Health in the "grey" millennium: Romanticism versus complexity? Social Responses. Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the "mutuality" of state and civil society? Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation; Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law; Finding the elder voice in social legislation; European social policy for the elderly; Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue; CulturalDimensions. Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying; Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21 century world of diversity; Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research; Reflections. The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue; Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share; Index.