Aging Bodies

Images and Everyday Experience
Herausgeber: Faircloth, Christopher A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. Christopher A. Faircloth's edited volume of original pieces attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the physical back into gerontology's study of aging. Faircloth organizes this text around everyday experience and the social and personal impact of its imagery, while concentrating on three areas of substantive concern: medicalization, gender/sexuality, and the body as consumer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780759102361
• ISBN-10: 0759102368
• Artikelnr.: 21350276

Autorenporträt

Christopher A. Faircloth is a research health scientist at the Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center (RORC) at the North Florida-South Georgia V.A. Medical Center in Gainesville, FL.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 PART I: IMAGES
Chapter 3 CHAPTER 1: Visual Representations of Late Life
Chapter 4 CHAPTER 2: The Dead Body and Organ Transplantation
Chapter 5 CHAPTER 3: The Female Aging Body through Film
Chapter 6 CHAPTER 4: Images Versus Experience of the Aging Body
Chapter 7 PART II: EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE
Chapter 8 CHAPTER 5: The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home
Chapter 9 CHAPTER 6: The Homosexual Body in Lesbian and Gay Elders'
Narratives
Chapter 10 CHAPTER 7: The Everyday Visibility of the Aging Body
Chapter 11 CHAPTER 8: The Bodies of Veteran Elite Runners
Chapter 12 CHAPTER 9: Ageing & the Dancing Body
Chapter 13 INDEX
Chapter 14 ABOUT THE AUTHORS