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Aging, Risk and Globalization (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century) - Softcover

Powell, Jason L.

 
9781628089028: Aging, Risk and Globalization (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century)

Synopsis

This book examines the concept of aging. It interrogates how it has been co-opted and absorbed by bio-medical approaches to gerontology. The book explores how the concept of risk is a major feature of how aging has been constructed and positioned by bio-medical experts, a transition to a "risk society" and the implications of populational aging in global society.

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