This new book focuses on five themes that link to a compelling argument in the study of aging and social policy. Firstly, there is a policy context of neo-liberal social policy and implications for older people which is presented, as well as the idea that social construction of aging focuses on ‘aging body’ and its discursive construction by medical and cultural representations. Additional topics discussed include the history of the present develops ideas and discourses of social welfare and aging; surveillance, power/knowledge and policing of subjects focused on care management and dystopian features of ‘care’ with related issues of ‘elder abuse’ and ‘institutional abuse’. Reconstructing aging looks at rethinking power relations and technologies of self in how subjects of knowledge can ‘resist’ medical discourses and professional power. (Imprint: Nova Press)
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter one: Policy Discourse and the NHS and Community Care Act (1990): A Critical Review
Chapter two: Social Theory and the Aging Body: The Importance of Theory
Chapter three: Aging and Social Theory: A Sociological Reflection
Chapter four: Archaeology and Genealogy: Developments in Foucauldian Gerontology
Chapter five: Foucault, Power and Social Work
Chapter six: The Changing History of Social Work with Older People: A Foucauldian Excursion
Chapter seven: Governmentality and Aging
Chapter eight: How is Old Age Managed? The Disciplinary Web of Power, Surveillance and Normalization
Chapter nine: Surveillance and Aging: the Power of Community Care
Chapter ten: Technologies of Self and Aging
Conclusion
Index
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