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- catalog abstract "The continuing growth in population of older people has spurred heated debate about healthcare politics, social security, and industrial and intergenerational relations. Along the line, gerontology has sprung up and flourished as a discipline. Katz deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web." He begins with a look at how the study of old age and the sciences of gerontology emerged recently as disciplines and what social, political, organizational, and epistemological conditions made their emergence possible. He then looks at how medicine has transformed the aged body into an inherently separate, boxed-off subject --an illness. In subsequent chapters Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology has built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies and "schools of thought"".
- catalog contributor b9130001.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Disciplinary Knowledge and Gerontological Subjects -- 1. The Aged Body and the Discourse of Senescence -- 2. The Elderly Population and the Modern Life-Course -- 3. Textual Formations and the Science of Old Age -- 4. The Field of Gerontology and Problematizations of Old Age -- Conclusions: Undisciplining Old Age.".
- catalog description "The continuing growth in population of older people has spurred heated debate about healthcare politics, social security, and industrial and intergenerational relations. Along the line, gerontology has sprung up and flourished as a discipline. Katz deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web." He begins with a look at how the study of old age and the sciences of gerontology emerged recently as disciplines and what social, political, organizational, and epistemological conditions made their emergence possible. He then looks at how medicine has transformed the aged body into an inherently separate, boxed-off subject --an illness. In subsequent chapters Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology has built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies and "schools of thought"".
- catalog extent "x, 209 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813916615 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813916623 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Knowledge, disciplinarity and beyond".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog subject "305.26 20".
- catalog subject "Gerontology.".
- catalog subject "HQ1061 .K388 1996".
- catalog subject "Old age Study and teaching.".
- catalog subject "Older people Social conditions Study and teaching.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Disciplinary Knowledge and Gerontological Subjects -- 1. The Aged Body and the Discourse of Senescence -- 2. The Elderly Population and the Modern Life-Course -- 3. Textual Formations and the Science of Old Age -- 4. The Field of Gerontology and Problematizations of Old Age -- Conclusions: Undisciplining Old Age.".
- catalog title "Disciplining old age : the formation of gerontological knowledge / Stephen Katz.".
- catalog type "text".