Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan by John W. Traphagan

Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan

John W. Traphagan

225 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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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 Ameri...

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