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Alive and Kicking at All Ages
. Ed(S): Kriebernegg, Ulla; Maierhofer, Roberta; Ratzenbock, Barbara
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Paperback. Editor(s): Kriebernegg, Ulla; Maierhofer, Roberta; Ratzenbock, Barbara. Num Pages: 324 pages, 21 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFH; JFSP31. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role ... Read more
The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837625820
SKU
V9783837625820
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About . Ed(S): Kriebernegg, Ulla; Maierhofer, Roberta; Ratzenbock, Barbara
Ulla Kriebernegg is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and an associate professor of American Studies at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research ... Read more
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