So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously.
So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously.
CRISTINA DOUGLAS is a medical anthropologist and a PhD candidate in social/medical anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. ANDREW WHITEHOUSE is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a coeditor of Landscapes beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives. JAY SOKOLOVSKY is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the editor of The Cultural Context of Aging, 4th edition, and author of Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century: A Multimedia-Enabled Text. SUSAN McHUGH is a professor of English at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide and Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines.
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Foreword: A Book to Think and Become With JAY SOKOLOVSKY Introduction: Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship CRISTINA DOUGLAS AND ANDREW WHITEHOUSE Part I Humans Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship 1 Caring Canines: Images of “Home” in Continuing Care ARDRA COLE AND SUSAN MACLEOD 2 Becoming Old with a Dog: Human-Animal Entanglements in Later-Life Transitions NETE SCHWENNESEN AND DANIEL LÓPEZ GÓMEZ 3 Of Dogs, Humans, and Lives Worth Living: Thinking with Dogs about Later Life, Living with Dementia, and More-Than-Human Companionship CRISTINA DOUGL AS 4 Aging with Companion Animals: More-Than-Human Agency, Digital and Sensory Intimacies, and Care INGRID RICHARDSON AND LARISSA HJORTH 5 Baby Seals and Armless Robots: Is This What Care in Later Life Is Made Of? CATHRINE DEGNEN AND KATIE BRITTAIN 6 How to Be a Good Robot? Human–Nonhuman Play in Dementia Care RUUD HENDRIKS AND IKE KAMPHOF Part II Other-Than-Humans Aging in Human Companionship 7 The Invisibility of the Aging Laboratory Animal LESLEY A . SHARP 8 Then There Were 3, 2, 1, 0: Grieving with and for a Murine Family SAMANTHA HURN 9 Posthuman Professionalism: Interspecies Entanglements and Clinical End of Life Care VANESSA ASHALL, JOANNA L AT IMER, AND CARRIE FRIESE Afterword: On Old Human and Other Animal Characters SUSAN McHUGH Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
Foreword: A Book to Think and Become With JAY SOKOLOVSKY Introduction: Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship CRISTINA DOUGLAS AND ANDREW WHITEHOUSE Part I Humans Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship 1 Caring Canines: Images of “Home” in Continuing Care ARDRA COLE AND SUSAN MACLEOD 2 Becoming Old with a Dog: Human-Animal Entanglements in Later-Life Transitions NETE SCHWENNESEN AND DANIEL LÓPEZ GÓMEZ 3 Of Dogs, Humans, and Lives Worth Living: Thinking with Dogs about Later Life, Living with Dementia, and More-Than-Human Companionship CRISTINA DOUGL AS 4 Aging with Companion Animals: More-Than-Human Agency, Digital and Sensory Intimacies, and Care INGRID RICHARDSON AND LARISSA HJORTH 5 Baby Seals and Armless Robots: Is This What Care in Later Life Is Made Of? CATHRINE DEGNEN AND KATIE BRITTAIN 6 How to Be a Good Robot? Human–Nonhuman Play in Dementia Care RUUD HENDRIKS AND IKE KAMPHOF Part II Other-Than-Humans Aging in Human Companionship 7 The Invisibility of the Aging Laboratory Animal LESLEY A . SHARP 8 Then There Were 3, 2, 1, 0: Grieving with and for a Murine Family SAMANTHA HURN 9 Posthuman Professionalism: Interspecies Entanglements and Clinical End of Life Care VANESSA ASHALL, JOANNA L AT IMER, AND CARRIE FRIESE Afterword: On Old Human and Other Animal Characters SUSAN McHUGH Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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