
Posts Tagged ‘aging’
Aging In Today’s World: Conversations Between An Anthropologist And A Physician (Public issues in anthropological perspective)
Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous β and for the most part β healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why are some people better at aging than others? W[Read More]
Aging and the Life Course
Monday, February 8th, 2010White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Monday, February 8th, 2010
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This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social li[Read More]
Care Managers: Working With the Aging Family
Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Care Managers: Working with the Aging Familyaddresses the unmet needs of care managers working with aging clients as well as the client's entire family. With itβs in-depth focus on the β aging family system," this book fills a gap for medical case managers and geriatric care managers giving them tools to better meet the treatment goals of aging[Read More]