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Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism, a divide realized in the divergent research fields of geriatrics and gerontology. The first examines the physical body, and the second focuses instead on the physiological and social aspects of ageing. This volume of collected essays attempts to bridge this rift. Reinserting the physical ageing body and its lived experiences back into gerontology's study of ageing, it asks ""is it not the physical body that readily marks us as ageing?"". The text is organized around two major themes of the ageing body - everyday experience and the social and personal impact of its imagery, while concentrating on three areas of substantive concern: medicalization, gender/sexuality and the body as consumer.

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This volume is a welcome contribution to the understanding of the aging and the aged body in the field of social gerontology. In contrast to overly abstract and, ironically, disembodied treatments of the body current in the academy today, essays in this collection ground theory and interpretation in original and intriguing empirical research. The result is a lively collection addressing cultural representations, lived experience, and social practices of those inhabiting an older body.--Furman, Frida Kerner

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Christopher A. Faircloth is a research health scientist at the Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center (RORC) at the North Florida-South Georgia V.A. Medical Center in Gainesville, FL.

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