Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

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.

• Preface Introduction: Challenge to a New Age Maggie Kuhn Chapter 1. Introduction Meredith Minkler PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGINGChapter 2. Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Aging Carroll L. Estes, James H. Swan and Lenore E. Gerard Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Governments Cuts for the Elderly Vicente Navarro Chapter 4. Social Control of the Elderly Linda Evans and John B. Williamson PART II. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: SOCIAL CONTROL AND MARKET ECONOMY HEALTH CAREChapter 5. Community Care and the Elderly in Great Britain: Theory and Practice Alan Walker Chapter 6. Mental Illness and the Aged Stranger James J. Dowd Chapter 7. Medicare and Medicaid: The Process, Value and Limits of Health Care Reforms E. Richard Brown Chapter 8. Public Policy and the Nursing Home Industry Charlene Harrington PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURED DEPENDENCY: INCOME, LABOR AND CONTROL OF CAPITALChapter 9. Reframing the Agenda of Policies on Aging Robert H. Binstock Chapter 10. Conflict, Crisis and the Future of Old Age Security John F. Myles Chapter 11. Retirement and the Origins of Age Discrimination William Graebner PART IV. AGING AS A WOMEN'S ISSUEChapter 12. Why Is Women's Lib Ignoring Old Women? Myrna I. Lewis and Robert N. Butler Chapter 13. Women and the Economics of Aging Carroll L. Estes, Lenore E. Gerard and Adele Clarke Chapter 14. The Sociopolitical Context of Women's Retirement Robyn Stone and Meredith Minkler PART V. FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR THE ELDERLYChapter 15. Austerity and Aging: 1980 and Beyond Carroll L. Estes Chapter 16. Blaming the Aged Victim: The Politics of Retrenchmentin Times of Fiscal Conservatism Meredith Minkler Epilogue Contributors