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Contesting Aging and Loss /
""This volume invites readers to re-imagine the losses of aging by listening to the views of elders themselves. Researchers, students of aging, and policy makers should find this work most enlightening.""--Athena McLean, Central Michigan University.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The experience of loss and the range of contestation / Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson
- Part I Overview: paradigms and perspectives. Age and time: contesting the paradigm of loss in the age of novelty / Peter H. Stephenson
- Part II Local understanding and knowledge about aging. how seniors see it
- Losing and gaining: about growing old "successfully" inthe Netherlands / Margaret von Faber and Sjaak van der Geest
- Empowering knowledge and practices of Namaqualand elders / Robin Oakley
- La Buona Vecchiaia: aging and well-being among Italian Canadians / Sam Migliore and Margaret Dorazio-Migliore
- Part III Illness, indignity, and stigmatization. Drunks, bums, and deadbeats? A biographical perspective on gender, aging, and the inequalities of men / Cherry Russell
- Dignity and loss: implications for seniors' health in hospitalization narratives / Christina Homes and Peter H. Stephenson
- Part IV Embodiments and disembodiments. Embodied selfhood: ethnographic reflections, performing ethnography, and humanizing dementia care / Pia C. Kontos
- The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia / Janice E. Graham