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No aging in India
— Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things | | Author(s) | Lawrence Cohen |
| Publisher | University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998 |
| Pages | 367 pp |
| Source | John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Dementia ; Sociology, Social Science ; Biological sciences ; Anthropological studies ; India. |
| Annotation | This book brings together insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and contemporary South Asian studies to argue against the reduction of older age to either its biology or history. Drawing on fieldwork in the Indian city of Varanasi, the author links everyday politics with events and processes around India and around the world: the generational dynamics of Indian cinema, advertising and popular medicine; the formation of international gerontology and its relation to Indian state welfare and social science; and the intensified marketing of dementia drugs globally. It is argued that what is at stake in senility, Alzheimer's disease and dementia is poorly served by reducing analysis to the biology of Alzheimer's, to the medicalisation of ageism or poverty, or to the peculiarities of Indian or American social constructions of the body and the self. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980825205 B |
| Classmark | BG: EA: S: Y7: 3FA: 7FA |
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