ISBN:
9781137393562
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 559 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Palgrave handbooks
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.2601
Keywords:
Political science_xPhilosophy
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Aging
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I The Meaning of Aging -- 2 How Old Is Old? Changing Conceptions of Old Age -- The Connotations of 'Old' -- An Objective Answer to the Question -- Not an Age but a Stage? -- The Normative Question -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Gerontology versus Geriatrics: Different Ways of Understanding Ageing and Old Age -- Introduction -- Geriatrics and Gerontology -- A Brief History of Geriatrics and Gerontology: Towards Modernity -- Modernity and Later: Past and Present Trends -- Ageing Outside the Body: The Rise of Social Gerontology -- Liquid Ageing? The Collapse of the Modern Paradigm -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Physiology and Psychology of Aging: Should Aging Be Successful or Authentic? -- Introduction -- The Physiology of Aging -- Cell Damage -- Repair -- Oxidative Stress -- Inclusion Bodies -- Mitochondria -- Stochastic Effects -- Back to Aging -- The Psychology of Aging -- Normal and Abnormal Aging -- Theories of Aging -- Genome-Based Theories -- Non-genetic or Stochastic Theories -- The Disposable Soma Theory -- Successful Aging -- Authentic Aging -- Authenticity -- Back to Authentic Aging -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Concepts of Time in Age and Aging -- Introduction -- The Emergence of Chronometric Time from Cosmological Narratives -- The Conventional Nature of Chronometric Time -- Chronometric Age: Exactly Arbitrary? -- The Search for Intrinsic Clocks of Aging -- Confusing Causalities -- Societal Functions of Chronometric Age -- Chronometric Time and Lived Time -- Narrative Configurations of Time and Aging -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Ageing of People and of Things -- Introduction -- Purposes and the Passing of Time -- The Multiformities of Ageing -- And Finally… -- References.
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