Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria by

Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837662771)

Vendor: Julia Velten
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Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria by

Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria

$55.00
Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria by

Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria, Julia Velten analyzes the way in which these people experience age(ing) and shows how these experiences can contribute to our understanding of age. Situated at the intersection of aging studies and medical humanities, the study explores what extraordinary age(ing) can tell us about aging processes in general.

Author: Julia Velten
ISBN-10: 3837662772
ISBN-13: 9783837662771
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
By Julia Velten
By Julia Velten
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Julia Velten, born in 1989, works as an assistant professor at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit舩 in Mainz. She received her doctorate from there in 2021. She was a member of the DFG Research Group ｻUn/doing Differences: Practices of Human Differentiationｫ from 2016-2019 and was hosted as visiting PhD student at the Trent Centre for Aging and Society in 2017. Her research focuses on aging, medical humanities, and indigenous studies.

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