Aging bodies
Subtitle: images and everyday experience
By: edited by Christopher A. Faircloth
Contributors: Faircloth, Christopher A., 1966-
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Older people; Older people -- Social conditions; Aging
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Images; title: Visual representations of late life / by Bill Bytheway; title: The dead body and organ transplantation / by Betina Freidin; title: The female aging body through film / by Elizabeth W. Markson; title: Images versus experience of the aging body / by Peter Öberg; title: Part 2: Everyday experience; title: The body and bathing : help with personal care at home / by Julie Twigg; title: The homosexual body in lesbian and gay elders' narratives / by Dana Rosenfeld; title: The everyday visibility of the aging body / by Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein