Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People / / Margaret Morganroth Gullette.
When the term "ageism" was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today's great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global Perspectives on Aging
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 7 color and 2 black-and-white |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface. Fight Ageism, Not Aging: The Discovery of Trauma
- 1. #Still Human
- 2. How (Not) to Shoot Old People
- 3. The Elder-Hostile
- 4. Vert-de-Gris
- 5. The Alzheimer's Defense
- 6. Our Frightened World
- 7. Induction into the Hall of Shame and the Way Out
- 8. Redress
- A Declaration of Grievances
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index