Jan Baars, Henk Visser

Aging and Time

Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Illustrated Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aims to revitalise the debate about the concepts of time implicit in the study of aging. This book explores issues concerning temporal concepts and approaches to aging; and the concepts of time that are used in thinking about aging that determine the way aging is approached. It is aimed at students and professors of the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780895033673
• ISBN-10: 0895033674
• Artikelnr.: 54579583

Autorenporträt

Jan Baars is Professor of Interpretive Gerontology, at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Introduction Chronological Time and Chronological Age: Problems of Temporal
Diversity
Jan Baars
A Triple Temporality of Aging: Chronological Measurement, Personal
Experience, and Narrative Articulation
Jan Baars
Psychological Time: Empirical Evidence, Theories, and Age-Related Effects
Elke van der Meer
Temporal References in the Construction of Self-Identity: A Life-Span
Approach
Freya Dittaman-Kohli
The Concept of Event Time in the Study of Adult Development
K. Warner Schaie
Time and Aging: A Physicist's Look at Gerontology
Jos Uffink
Biological Time as an Emergent Property
F. Eugene Yates
Whence an Emergence of Biological Time?
Jos Uffink
Further Conjectures on the Nature of Time in Living Systems: Causes of
Senescence Addendum F. Eugene Yates
The Integration Problem: Toward Multilevel Explanations