Voices and Visions of Aging

Toward a Critical Gerontology

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Voices and Visions of Aging

Toward a Critical Gerontology

Editors

Thomas Cole, PhD

W. Andrew Achenbaum, PhD

Patricia Jakobi, PhD

Robert Kastenbaum, PhD

Description

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.

Contents

Thomas R. Cole

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

Authors

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.

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