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Alive and Kicking at All Ages : Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity / Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck

Kriebernegg, Ulla [Verfasser] ; Maierhofer, Roberta,i1960- [Herausgeber] ; Ratzenböck, Barbara [Herausgeber]

1st edition

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2014

Stuttgart : UTB GmbH

1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten)

Aging Studies ; 5

978-3-8394-2582-4 ; 9783837625820

MS 2700 MS 4050 LC 56000 LB 43860

 

Alter  Gesundheit  Soziale Konstruktion  Soziale Identität  Altenbild  USA  Prosa  Alter, Motiv  Gesundheit, Motiv  f Konferenzschrift, 2012, Izmir  

 

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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.