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Framing Age - Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics (Paperback)
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Framing Age - Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many
industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the
attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of
health and social policies, older people are often identified as a
specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has
become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology,
psychology, to name but three - and a discipline of its own:
gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing
on the relationships between policy making and the production of
knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific
expertise and the politics of old age anchors the construction of
both individual and collective relationships to the future. Part II
brings to light the many ways in which issues relating to ageing
can be instrumentalised and ideologised in several public debate
arenas. Part III argues that scientific knowledge itself composes
with objectivity, bringing ideologies of its own to the table, and
looks at how this impacts discourse about ageing. In the final
part, the contributors discuss how the frames can themselves be
experienced at different levels of the division of labour, whether
it is by people who work on them (legislators or scientists), by
people working with them (professional carers) or by older people
themselves. Unpacking the political and moral dimensions of
scientific research on ageing, this cutting-edge volume brings
together a range of multidisciplinary, European perspectives, and
will be of use to all those interested in old age and the social
sciences.
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