Taming Oblivion
Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan
Examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese.Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists known as boke. Although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of senile dementia, boke is distinguished from unambiguously pathological conditions. Rather than being viewed as a disea…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-9296-3
- EAN: 9780791492963
- Produktnummer: 35072606
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 225 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 32'752 KB
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