Framing age contested knowledge in science and politics / edited by Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus and Thibauld Moulaert.

Other author Loffeier, Iris, 1983-
Other author Majerus, Benoît.
Other author Moulaert, Thibauld.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Descriptionp. ; cm.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness. ^A1140411
Contents Demographic change as dystopia : contemporary German discourses on ageing, between science and politics / Reinhardt Messerschmidt -- Recommendations concerning the use of physical exercise to improve the wellbeing of older people in France / Cécile Collinet and Matthieu Delalandre -- "Regimes of hope" in planning later life : medical optimism in the field of anti-ageing medicine / Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller -- Nationalism and the moral economy of ageing / Magnus Nilsson -- Sexual assistance, suicide assistance and the condition of dependent older adult / Alexandre Lambelet -- Toward a biopolitics of old age : vulnerability and ageing in postwar France / Richard C. Keller -- Connecting categories : age, gender and archaeologies of knowledge / Nicole Kramer -- The breakdown of consensus on pro-natalist policies : media discourse, social research and a new demographic agreement / Antía Pérez-Caramés -- The social construction of dependency : controversies in France around an assessment instrument in France / Nicolas Belorgey -- Discerning ageing in relation to the law? Debates on the legal framework of freedom of movement of the elderly in France between 2004 and 2015 / Lucie Lechevalier Hurard and Benoît Eyraud -- Different initial training, different professional practices? Latitude and interprofessionality in dependency assessment / Jingyue Xing and Solène Billaud -- Shaping old age : innovation partnerships, senior centres and billiards tables as active ageing technologies / Aske Juul Lassen.
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LCCN 2016055455
ISBN9781138683839 (hbk)