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Critical humanities and ageing : forging interdisciplinary dialogues
Title
Critical humanities and ageing : forging interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by Marlene Goldman, Kate de Medeiros, and Thomas Cole.
ISBN
1000586065
1000586073
1003112110
9781000586060
9781000586077
9781003112112
9780367630928
9780367630935
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : illustrations.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Marlene Goldman is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto who specializes in Canadian literature, age studies, and medical humanities. In addition to her scholarly works, she has also written, directed, and produced a short film about dementia entitled "Piano Lessons" based on Alice Munro's short story "In Sight of the Lake" from her collection Dear Life (2004). Her film Torching the Dusties, about ageing and intergenerational warfare from Margaret Atwood's recent collection Stone Mattress (2014), premiered at the Fright Festival in London, U.K. Kate de Medeiros is the O'Toole Family Professor of Gerontology in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology and a Scripps Research Fellow at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Dr. de Medeiros's research is broadly focused on understanding the experience of later life using narratives and other qualitative and mix-methods approaches. Research topics include storying later life, the meaning of home, suffering in old age, generativity, moral development in later life, and friendships and social connectivity among people living with dementia. Thomas R. Coleis the McGovern Chair and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. His work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and PBS. Cole has served as an advisor to the President's Council on Bioethics and the United Nations NGO Committee on Ageing. His book The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in Americawas nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Summary
"Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population. Drawing on work from across the humanities - philosophy, fine arts, religion, and literature, this book will be a useful supplemental text for courses on age studies, sociology and gerontology at both undergraduate and graduate levels"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Critical humanities and ageing Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge advances in the medical humanities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Why we need to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in contemporary age studies
Part I. What does it mean to grow old?. Abolition, women's rights, and the contested value of being old in the nineteenth-century United States
Response 1: Abstracting ageist perceptions, societal ills, and racist burdens on the psychological well-being of Black women : is successful aging still an option?
There is no such thing as the elderly : reading age in nineteenth-century American literature
Response 2: Intersectionality and age
Cognition and recognition in the ethics of dementia care
Response 3: Philosophical approaches to dementia : some further reflections on agency and identity
Agency and the aging artist
Response 4: The art of bending the successful aging paradigm : contemporary older artists and their continuing creative practices
Part II. Aging : old age and disability. Estragement : towards an 'age theory' theatre criticism
Response 5: Fuch's case for stranger visions
Ableism and ageism : insights from disability studies for aging studies
Response 6: Fears generating ageism and ableism are well-founded in a society that does not seek or support full inclusion of all persons
In conversation with Sally Chivers : reimagining long-term residential care
Response 7: Aging and caring amid words, stories, and texts
Queer aging and the significance of (narrative) representations
Response 8: What we miss
Part III. Aging, old age, and activism. Conceptualizing ageism : from prejudice and discrimination to fourth ageism
Aging in the anthropocene : generational time, declining longevity, posthuman aging
Response 10: Aging in the anthropocene : geological time, generational place
Critical conversations on aging futures : decolonial perspectives
Response 11: The age of (relentless) responsibility
Part IV. Old age and humanistic approaches to care. Intimacy and distance : reflections on eldercare in the United States
Response 12: Toward a deeper understanding of care in later life
Care work and the politics of interdependence
Response 13: Developing new forms of care : from individual to collective agency
Posthuman care and posthumous life in Marjorie Prime
Response 14: Only persons can provide person-centered care for people living with dementia : Walter Prime and his ilk miss the mark
Risky business : bringing transformative creativity to U.S. nursing homes
Response 15: Valuing risk in residential long-term care : setting an important ethical standard for supporting and nurturing human flourishing.
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