Ending ageism, or how not to shoot old people / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.

  • Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
Date:
[2017]
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Physical description

xxii, 265 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

Prologue: fight ageism, not aging: the discovery of trauma -- #still human: into the glare of the public square -- How (not) to shoot old people: breaking ageist paradigms through portrait photography -- The elder-hostile: giving college students a better start at life -- Vert-de-gris: rescuing the land lovers -- The Alzheimer's defense: "faking bad" in international atrocity trials -- Our frightened world: fantasies of euthanasia and preemptive suicide -- Induction into the hall of shame: when aging serves as the trigger for ageism, shaming is its weapon -- Redress: overcoming trauma, repairing relationships, healing society -- Epilogue: a declaration of grievances.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-251) and index.

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Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    UYS /GUL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780813589299
  • 0813589290
  • 9780813589282
  • 0813589282