No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility—encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties—combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies—the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, Lawrence

Social Sciences

University of California Press

From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility―encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties―combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies―the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.

A synopsis of medicine in dentistry

Lea, Febiger

Integrative medicine is the integration of evidence-based complementary and alternative therapies into mainstream health care with the goals of optimizing health promotion, preventing disease, improving patient outcomes, managing symptoms, and improving quality of life. The guest editors have assembled expert authors who present state-of-the-art articles on topics including nutritional supplements, acupuncture, mind-body therapies, massage therapy, and evidence-based botanical research. Other articles address ethical issues and providing integrative care in a major cancer center.

Integrative Medicine in Oncology, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics (Volume 22-4) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine, Volume 22-4)

Medical Books

Frenkel, Moshe

Medicine

Saunders

Norwood, an Anglo-Jewish childcare institution founded in the late nineteenth century, was one of several hundred such institutions in the UK, but the only Jewish one. Throughout its history, Norwood had the unusual task of adapting its childcare approach to both British and Jewish concerns. This book offers a unique study of one residential child institution within the broader British context, tracing the development of the institution and changing concepts of childcare over nearly one hundred years. The story of Norwood is told chronologically, beginning with its origins in the early nineteenth century and its growth before the First World War. The inter-war years saw a period of stagnation that paved the way for the post-war revolution in institutional childcare, the demise of the orphanage idea and, with it, the demolition of Norwood. The book provides a narrative of the rise and fall of the childcare institution as much as the story of Norwood.

Care and Conflict: The Story of the Jewish Orphanage at Norwood

History

Europe

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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