LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris gilleard

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  • Social Divisions and Later Life
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. ...
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    130,22 €

  • Social Divisions and Later Life
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. ...
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    51,97 €

  • Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
    Chris Gilleard
    Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland’s population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908.  It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure.  It explores the growing pr...
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    71,45 €

  • Personhood, identity and care in advanced old age
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by ageing, and the associated problems of mental and physical frailty in later life. ...
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    111,95 €

  • Personhood, identity and care in advanced old age
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by ageing, and the associated problems of mental and physical frailty in later life. ...
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    48,68 €

  • Rethinking Old Age
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a ’fourth age’ that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinc...
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    246,05 €

  • Rethinking Old Age
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a ’fourth age’ that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinc...
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    70,97 €

  • Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently - for ageing without becoming old.  ...
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    57,53 €

  • Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently - for ageing without becoming old.  ...
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    142,33 €

  • Cultures of Ageing
    Chris Gilleard / Paul Higgs
    For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing and adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platf...
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    117,96 €