Permanent personhood or meaningful declineα Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging

Journal of Aging Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-52

  Lamb, Sarah ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Critique of successful aging; Culture; Decline; Indian and US perspectives; Personhood

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONHOOD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONHOOD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893501335     PISSN: 08904065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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