Never Say Die
The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: pages ; cm.
In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity--pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of aging.
Contents:
Never say old -- Youth culture : an American tradition -- Boomer beginnings and age-defying denial -- Miracles of modern medicine and other half-truths -- A mind is a terrible thing to lose -- Women : eventually, the only sex -- Greedy geezers and other half-truths -- The "wisdom of old age" -- Endings -- The ethics of longevity : an argument in search of facts -- Necessary bedfellows : bridges between generations old-age autonomy.
ISBN:
9780307377944 (hbk.)
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SOCIAL SCI Age Group Elder Jac | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |