Table of Contents

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 PART I: IMAGES Chapter 3 CHAPTER 1: Visual Representations of Late Life Chapter 4 CHAPTER 2: The Dead Body and Organ Transplantation Chapter 5 CHAPTER 3: The Female Aging Body through Film Chapter 6 CHAPTER 4: Images Versus Experience of the Aging Body Chapter 7 PART II: EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE Chapter 8 CHAPTER 5: The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at Home Chapter 9 CHAPTER 6: The Homosexual Body in Lesbian and Gay Elders' Narratives Chapter 10 CHAPTER 7: The Everyday Visibility of the Aging Body Chapter 11 CHAPTER 8: The Bodies of Veteran Elite Runners Chapter 12 CHAPTER 9: Ageing & the Dancing Body Chapter 13 INDEX Chapter 14 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*Frida Kerner Furman, DePaul University*