Powell, Jason (2009) Social Theory, Aging, and Health and Welfare Professionals: A Foucauldian "Toolkit". Journal of Applied Gerontology, 28 (6). pp. 669-682. ISSN 0733-4648
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0733464809335596
Health and welfare have emerged as pivotal drivers used to position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary Western societies. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and care professionals. However, they also represent an increase in professional control that can be exerted on lifestyles in old age, and thus, the wider social meanings associated with that part of the life course. The article presents a theoretical analysis of gerontology based on a critical reading of the work of Michel Foucault. It identifies the interrelationship between
managerialism and older people in terms of a conceptual toolkit of (a) “medical power,” and (b) “assessment,” “surveillance,” and “resistance”; the key point is that they are relevant in theorizing power relations between health and welfare professionals and user groups such as older people.
|Uncontrolled Keywords (separate with ;):||medical power; aging; assessment; surveillance and welfare|
|Subjects:||Social studies > Sociology|
|Schools:||College of Business, Law & Applied Social Studies > Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching|
|Deposited By:||Helen Cooper|
|Deposited On:||18 May 2011 15:01|
|Last Modified:||17 May 2016 12:22|
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