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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lamb, Sarah, 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Altenpolitik
Sozialpolitik
Erfolgsbewertung
Altern
Alter
Vergleichende Forschung
Gerontologie
Sozialwissenschaften
Older people.
Aging > Social aspects.
MEDICAL > Geriatrics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Vieillissement > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Older people > Cross-cultural studies.
Aging > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession exposes and complicates contemporary readings of successful aging, questioning and defamiliarizing Western visions of the place of old age in the life course. This volume brings fresh insight and international perspectives that expand our collective imagination about what it is to age, and, by extension, to live.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813585369

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