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Taming Oblivion

Name: Taming Oblivion
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04700788
Price: 39.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: John W. Traphagan
ISBN: 9780791445006

Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan

John W. Traphagan

Language

English

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Libristo code: 04700788

Publishers State University of New York Press, February 2000

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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 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.