Taming oblivion
aging bodies and the fear of senility in Japan
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Author
Publication
2000 - State University of New York Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,250 words, Guess
Page Count
225 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL33210M
- ISBN-100791444996
- OCLC Control Number41299202
- OCLC Control Numbertamingoblivionag0000trap
- Library of Congress Control Number99015653
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- Goodreads3779382
- LibraryThing9321442
Classifications
- DDC305.26/0952
- LCCHQ1064.J3 T73 2000
Description
"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 disease, boke is seen as an illness over which people have some degree of control. John Traphagan's ethnographic study of older Japanese explores their experiences as they contemplate and attempt to prevent or delay the boke condition."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series in Japan in transition
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