Aging bodies : images and everyday experience / edited by Christopher A. Faircloth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faircloth, Christopher A., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people.

Older people--Social conditions.

Aging.

Physical Description:

vi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1: Images

Visual representations of late life / by Bill Bytheway

The dead body and organ transplantation / by Betina Freidin

The female aging body through film / by Elizabeth W. Markson

Images versus experience of the aging body / by Peter Öberg

Part 2: Everyday experience

The body and bathing : help with personal care at home / by Julie Twigg

The homosexual body in lesbian and gay elders' narratives / by Dana Rosenfeld

The everyday visibility of the aging body / by Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

075910235X

0759102368

OCLC:

51117059