4. Vulnerability and the Political Imagination: Constructing Old Age in Postwar France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Stories, Suffering, and the State: The Heat Wave and Narratives of Disaster 25
5. 2. Anecdotal Life: Isolation, Vulnerability, and Social Marginalization 57
6. 3. Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form 87
7. 4. Vulnerability and the Political Imagination: Constructing Old Age in Postwar France 115
8. 5. Counting the Dead: Risk and the Limits of Epidemiology 150
9. Epilogue 181
10. Acknowledgments 193
11. Notes 197
12. Bibliography 221
13. Index 239