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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.
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine
by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a
chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by
questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians,
institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian
characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of
Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields,
especially cultural history and political history and medical
historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context
of their activities. -- .
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.
In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history
have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding
belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for
psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very
little is known about the agency of these objects and their
appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material
cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of
psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry
is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly
negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how
this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the
agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
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