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001			on1102422478
003			OCoLC
005			20190610151226.0
008			180914s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2018040491
040			_aDAD _beng _erda _cDAD _dOCLCO _dUAP _dNFG
020			_a9781620405468 _q(hardback)
020			_a1620405466 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1102422478
043			_an-us---
092			_a362.6097 _bA769
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAronson, Louise, _eauthor. _9402806
245	1	0	_aElderhood : _bredefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / _cLouise Aronson.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2019.
300			_axiv, 449 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [433]-435) and index.
520			_aFor more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. -- inside front flap.
650		0	_aOlder people _xHealth and hygiene _zUnited States. _971197
650		0	_aAging _zUnited States. _9304802
650		0	_aOlder people _xMedical care _zUnited States. _9193240
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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