Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience
Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience Books
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Western plotting traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism, a divide realized in the different research fields of geriatrics and gerontology; the first examines the corporal body, and the second focuses instead upon psychological and social aspects of aging. Research Health Scientist Christopher Faircloth’s edited volume of original pieces attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the corporal aging body and its lived experiences back into gerontology’s study of aging. He questions, ‘Is it not the corporal body that readily marks us as aging?’ Faircloth organizes this text nearly two major themes of the aging body: everyday experience, and the social and private impact of its descriptions, even as concentrating on three areas of substantive concern: medicalization, gender/sexuality, and the body as consumer. This book would be of interest to gerontologists, social scientists, and students of these fields concerned with the aging body, both object and theme, as experienced and alternatively perceived in relation to contemporary society.
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