Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 449 pages ; 23 cm
Status
Mayer Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
362.609 ARONSON
1 available
362.609 ARONSON
1 available
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
UPC
40029275578
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.
Description
"Physician 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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Subjects
LC Subjects
Aging -- Social aspects -- United States.
Aging -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Aging -- United States -- Public opinion.
Aging -- United States.
Autobiographies.
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Older people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Aging -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Aging -- United States -- Public opinion.
Aging -- United States.
Autobiographies.
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Older people -- United States -- Social conditions.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Aronson, L. (2019). Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life . Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. 2019. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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