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Alive and Kicking at All Ages : Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity / ed. by Barbara Ratzenböck, Roberta Maierhofer, Ulla Kriebernegg. - 1. Aufl. - 1 online resource (324 p.) - Aging Studies ; 5 .

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9783837625820 9783839425824

Standard No.: 10.1515/transcript.9783839425824 doi

LCCN: 2014399414

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aging--Congresses.
Older people--Congresses.
Cultural Studies.
Disability.
Gender.
Health.
Identity.
Madness.
Medicine.
Memory.
Narratives of Decline.
Sociology of Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology.

Subjects--Index Terms: Cultural Studies. Disability. Gender. Health. Identity. Madness. Medicine. Memory. Narratives of Decline. Sociology of Medicine.

LC Class. No.: HQ1061 / .A522 2014 HQ1061 / .A559 2014eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.26