Alive and Kicking at All Ages : Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity Paperback / softback
Edited by Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenbock
Part of the Aging Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 the notion of health plays in such an interaction.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:15/03/2014
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- ISBN:9783837625820
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:15/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9783837625820
