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Author Greenhalgh, Charlotte, 1983- author.

Title Aging in twentieth-century Britain / Charlotte Greenhalgh.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages).
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Series Berkeley series in British studies ; 12
Berkeley series in British studies ; 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : aging and twentieth-century Britain -- Experts and the elderly : social research on old age -- Talking with Peter Townsend : elderly Britons at home -- Into the institution : residential care for the aged -- "Making the best of my appearance" : grooming in old age -- Games with time : autobiography and aging.
Summary "This book provides the first comprehensive study of the emotional, social, institutional, family, embodied and narrated lives of older people across twentieth century Britain. It demonstrates not just that older lives matter historically but also that old age is itself historically contingent and has been actively constituted in tandem with particular welfare and medical discourses. It also offers important insights into the ways in which social scientists constituted the topics of their research through their need to extrapolate from experience to abstraction, for the purposes of policy recommendation. In fact, it suggests the near impossibility of the task that social science set itself in this period: to respect individual experience while moving beyond it. Finally, the book feeds into broader historiographical discussions concerning the relationship between the 'expert' and 'experience' in this period. Returning to the data generated alongside the resulting analysis, Greenhalgh places the understandings--and lived experiences--of individuals within this broad age category center stage in a way that is both moving and intellectually enlightening"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Older people -- Great Britain.
Older people.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Greenhalgh, Charlotte, 1983- Aging in twentieth-century Britain. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520298781 (DLC) 2018002049
ISBN 9780520970809 (electronic book)
0520970802 (electronic book)
9780520298781 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780520298798