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Disciplining old age
 — the formation of gerontological knowledge
Author(s)Stephen Katz
PublisherUniversity Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1996
Pages209 pp (Knowledge: disciplinarity and beyond series)
SourceThe University Press of Virginia, Box 3608, University Station, Charlottesville, VA 22903-0608, USA.
KeywordsAgeing process ; Biological ageing ; Philosophy ; Sociology, Social Science.
AnnotationStudies old age and gerontology from philosophical and sociological perspectives. Sections include: the aged body and the discourse of senescence; the elderly population and the modern life-course; textual formations and the science of old age; the field of gerontology and the science of old age; the field of gerontology and the problematizations of old age.
Accession NumberCPA-961017207 B
ClassmarkBG: BH: 4DP: S

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