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This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of
old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of
the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book
places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century
literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural,
legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern
debates about aging in the nineteenth century - a period that saw
the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the
understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The
contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning
field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the
nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly
interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research
interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines
and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century
by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of
gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of
old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of
the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book
places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century
literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural,
legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern
debates about aging in the nineteenth century - a period that saw
the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the
understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The
contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning
field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the
nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly
interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research
interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines
and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century
by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of
gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the
area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative
welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure
exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied
since social rights have exclusively focused on entitlement to cash
benefits. Addressing this research gap, BAhm analyses in what way
the social right to health care has been modified in the course of
general welfare state transformation since the late 1970s. Taking
England and Germany as examples, she assesses how health care
reforms conducted under the conditions of constrained budgets,
demographic ageing, and rapid medical progress, have altered access
to and generosity of public health care systems over the past 35
years. The book's findings significantly increase our understanding
of social rights and reveals fundamental differences of approach:
while Germany provides absolute and enforceable rights to health
care for each (entitled) individual, English social health care
rights are directed towards the population as a whole and
contingent upon the availability of resources, i.e. they are not
absolute and not enforceable. This distinction between individual
and collective social rights will be an important contribution to
the theory of social rights given its applicability to other types
of social rights and its usefulness in tracing changes in social
rights over time.
This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the
area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative
welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure
exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied
since social rights have exclusively focused on entitlement to cash
benefits. Addressing this research gap, BAhm analyses in what way
the social right to health care has been modified in the course of
general welfare state transformation since the late 1970s. Taking
England and Germany as examples, she assesses how health care
reforms conducted under the conditions of constrained budgets,
demographic ageing, and rapid medical progress, have altered access
to and generosity of public health care systems over the past 35
years. The book's findings significantly increase our understanding
of social rights and reveals fundamental differences of approach:
while Germany provides absolute and enforceable rights to health
care for each (entitled) individual, English social health care
rights are directed towards the population as a whole and
contingent upon the availability of resources, i.e. they are not
absolute and not enforceable. This distinction between individual
and collective social rights will be an important contribution to
the theory of social rights given its applicability to other types
of social rights and its usefulness in tracing changes in social
rights over time.
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