Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

ISBN-13: 9780895030429 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 278 str.

Opis

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

O autorze

Meredith Minkler is Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Carroll L. Estes is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the founding and former director of the Institute for Health & Aging (1979-98) and the former Chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, UCSF.