Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
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New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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xiv, 449 pages ; 24 cm
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. 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. [...] Harvard-trained 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. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."" --
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Street Date:
1906
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781620405468
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-435) and index.
Description
"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. 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. [...] Harvard-trained 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. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."" --,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Aronson, L. (2019). Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Aronson, Louise. 2019. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Aronson, Louise, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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