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Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
Table of Contents
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Preface
Introduction: Challenge to a New Age
Maggie Kuhn
Chapter 1. Introduction Meredith Minkler
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGING
Chapter 2. Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a
Political Economy of Aging
Carroll L. Estes, James H. Swan and Lenore E. Gerard
Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Governments Cuts for the Elderly
Vicente Navarro
Chapter 4. Social Control of the Elderly
Linda Evans and John B. Williamson
PART II. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: SOCIAL CONTROL AND MARKET
ECONOMY HEALTH CARE
Chapter 5. Community Care and the Elderly in Great Britain: Theory and
Practice
Alan Walker
Chapter 6. Mental Illness and the Aged Stranger
James J. Dowd
Chapter 7. Medicare and Medicaid: The Process, Value and Limits of Health
Care Reforms
E. Richard Brown
Chapter 8. Public Policy and the Nursing Home Industry
Charlene Harrington
PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: INCOME, LABOR AND CONTROL
OF CAPITAL
Chapter 9. Reframing the Agenda of Policies on Aging
Robert H. Binstock
Chapter 10. Conflict, Crisis and the Future of Old Age Security
John F. Myles
Chapter 11. Retirement and the Origins of Age Discrimination
William Graebner
PART IV. AGING AS A WOMEN'S ISSUE
Chapter 12. Why Is Women's Lib Ignoring Old Women?
Myrna I. Lewis and Robert N. Butler
Chapter 13. Women and the Economics of Aging
Carroll L. Estes, Lenore E. Gerard and Adele Clarke
Chapter 14. The Sociopolitical Context of Women's Retirement
Robyn Stone and Meredith Minkler
PART V. FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR
THE ELDERLY
Chapter 15. Austerity and Aging: 1980 and Beyond
Carroll L. Estes
Chapter 16. Blaming the Aged Victim: The Politics of Retrenchmentin Times
of Fiscal Conservatism
Meredith Minkler
Epilogue
Contributors
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