Bibliograph

Elderhood, redefining medicine, life, and aging in America, Louise Aronson

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Elderhood, redefining medicine, life, and aging in America, Louise Aronson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Elderhood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1052902950

Responsibility statement

Louise Aronson

Sub title

redefining medicine, life, and aging in America

Summary

"For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself."--, Provided by publisher

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