The Palgrave Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Aging

Author : Geoffrey Scarre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137393562

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging by Geoffrey Scarre Pdf

This comprehensive handbook presents the major philosophical perspectives on the nature, prospects, problems and social context of age and aging in an era of dramatically increasing life-expectancy. Drawing on the latest research in gerontology, medicine and the social sciences, its twenty-seven chapters examine our intuitions and common sense beliefs about the meaning of aging and explore topics such as the existential experience of old age, aging in different philosophical and religious traditions, the place of the elderly in contemporary society and the moral rights and responsibilities of the old. This book provides innovative and leading-edge research that will help to determine the parameters of the philosophy of aging for years to come. Key Features • Structured in four parts addressing the meaning, experience, ethics and future of aging • Comprehensive ethical coverage including of the retirement age, health-care for the elderly and the transhumanist life-extending project • Focused treatment of the dementia ‘epidemic’ and the philosophy of the mind and self The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and advanced students in the philosophy of the self, moral and political philosophy, bioethics, phenomenology, narrative studies and philosophy of economics. It is also an ideal volume for researchers, advanced students and professionals in gerontology, health care, psychology, sociology and population studies.

Author : Christopher Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137344557

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The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods by Christopher Daly Pdf

This Handbook contains twenty-six original and substantive papers examining a wide selection of philosophical methods. Drawing upon an international range of leading contributors, it will help shape future debates about how philosophy should be done. The papers will be of particular interest to researchers and high-level undergraduates.

Author : Samuel R. Nyman,Anna Barker,Terry Haines,Khim Horton,Charles Musselwhite,Geeske Peeters,Christina R. Victor,Julia Katharina Wolff
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030100375

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The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion by Samuel R. Nyman,Anna Barker,Terry Haines,Khim Horton,Charles Musselwhite,Geeske Peeters,Christina R. Victor,Julia Katharina Wolff Pdf

The ageing of our population is a key societal issue across the globe. Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of life and independence and to prevent rises in health and social care costs. This timely and ground-breaking volume will provide an up-to-date overview of the factors that promote physical activity in later life. Despite advances in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics, sports and exercise science, sociology, health psychology, and public health, knowledge is largely contained within disciplines as reflected in the current provision of academic texts on this subject. To truly address the present and substantial societal challenges of population ageing, a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach is required. This handbook will inform researchers, students, and practitioners on the current evidence base for what physical activities need to be promoted among older people and how they can be implemented to maximise engagement. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and students across the social sciences.

Author : C. S. Wareham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108495134

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing by C. S. Wareham Pdf

The first volume of new work dedicated specifically to ageing ethics - wide-ranging, clear, and accessible.

Author : Scott F. Madey,Dean D. VonDras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108844697

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Music, Wellness, and Aging by Scott F. Madey,Dean D. VonDras Pdf

This definitive account of the intersection between music, wellness, and aging explores deeper aspects of human nature and later life.

Author : Mark Schweda,Michael Coors,Claudia Bozzaro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783030250973

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Aging and Human Nature by Mark Schweda,Michael Coors,Claudia Bozzaro Pdf

This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. It provides a systematic inventory of fundamental theoretical questions and assumptions involved in the discussion of ageing and old age. What does it mean for human beings to grow old and become more vulnerable and dependent? How can we understand the manifestations of ageing and old age in the human body? How should we interpret the processes of change in the temporal course of a human life? What impact does old age have on the social dimensions of human existence? In order to tackle these questions, the volume brings together internationally distinguished scholars from the fields of philosophy, theology, cultural studies, social gerontology, and ageing studies. The collection of their original articles makes a twofold contribution to contemporary academic discourse. On one hand, it helps to clarify and deepen our understanding of ageing and old age by examining it from the fundamental point of view of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. At the same time, it also enhances and expands the discourses of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology by systematically taking into account that human beings are essentially ageing creatures.

Author : Diane Jeske
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000619454

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship by Diane Jeske Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives both the advanced scholar and the novice in the field an overview and also an in-depth exploration of the connections between friendship and the history of philosophy, morality, practical rationality, value theory, and interpersonal relationships more generally. The Handbook consists of 31 newly commissioned chapters by an international slate of contributors, and is divided into six sections: I. Historical Perspectives II. Who Can Be Our Friends? III. Friendship and Other Relationships IV. The Value and Rationality of Friendship V. Friendship, Morality, and Virtue VI. New Issues in Philosophy of Friendship This volume is essential reading not only for anyone interested in the philosophical questions involving friendship, but also for anyone interested in related topics such as love, sex, moral duties, the good life, the nature of rationality, interpersonal and interspecies relationships, and the nature of the person.

Author : Pedro Querido,María Ibáñez-Rodríguez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004397996

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On Fear, Horror, and Terror: Giving Utterance to the Unutterable by Pedro Querido,María Ibáñez-Rodríguez Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays whose diversity of insights and methodologies facilitates a kaleidoscopic look at a universally-recognizable cluster of phenomena and experiences of fear, anxiety, horror, and terror that often defy straightforward categorization or even description.

Author : Erick Valdés,Juan Alberto Lecaros
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031294518

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Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume I by Erick Valdés,Juan Alberto Lecaros Pdf

The Handbook of Bioethical Decisions is aimed at addressing and analyzing the most important ethical concerns and moral quandaries arisen in biomedical and scientific research. As such, it identifies and problematizes on a comprehensive range of ethical issues researchers must deal with in different critical contexts. Thus, the Handbook, Vol. I, may be helpful for them to make decisions and deliberate in complex practical scenarios. In this fashion, the volume reunites different points of view to give readers room enough to get a better knowledge and take their own position on pressing bioethical issues of the day. Consequently, this work seeks to engender dense ethical epistemology scientists can count on when conducting latest generation biomedical research. By bringing together an impressive array of contributions on the most important elements and categories for “at the bench” bioethical decisions as well as offering chapters by some of the most world renowned and prominent experts in bioethics, the Handbook, Vol. I, is a paradigmatic text in its area and a valuable resource for courses on bioethics, and biomedical research, as well as courses that discuss ethics and the biosciences at different professional levels, biomedical industry, pharmacological companies and the public sphere in general.

Author : Jan Baars
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000902334

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Long Lives Are for the Rich by Jan Baars Pdf

Long Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequalities – including those between healthy and unhealthy life styles – are mainly caused by social inequalities that are reproduced over the life course. This crucial function of the life course has become painfully visible during its neoliberal reorganization since the early 1980s. Studies about aging over the life course, from birth to death, show the inhumane consequences as people get older. In spite of the enormous wealth that has been piled up in the US for a dwindling percentage of the population, there has been growing public indifference about the needs of those in jobs with low pay and high stress, but also about citizens from a broad middle class who can hardly afford high quality education or healthcare. However, this ominous program affects all: recent mortality rates show that all Americans, including the rich, are unhealthier and dying earlier than citizens of other developed countries. Moreover, the underlying social inequalities are tearing the population apart with nasty consequences for all citizens, including the rich. Although the public awareness of the consequences has been growing, neoliberal policies remain tempting for the economic and political elites of the developed world because of the enormous wealth that is flowing to the top. All this poses urgent questions of social justice. Unfortunately, the predominant studies of social justice along the life course help to reproduce these inequalities by neglecting them. This book analyzes the main dynamics of social inequality over the life course and proposes a theory of social justice that sketches a way forward for a country that is willing to invest in its greatest resource: the creative potential of its population.

Author : Noël Carroll,Laura T. Di Summa,Shawn Loht
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030196011

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures by Noël Carroll,Laura T. Di Summa,Shawn Loht Pdf

This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium’s intersection with contemporary social issues, film’s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.

Author : Peter Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000008692

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David Foster Wallace and the Body by Peter Sloane Pdf

David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a ‘human being’. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire ‘to be reconciled’. Given the ubiquity of the themes of embodiment in Wallace’s work, this study is an important addition to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature, culture, and society more generally, placing Wallace’s works in the history of literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of embodiment.

Author : Irene Gammel,Jason Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000538236

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Creative Resilience and COVID-19 by Irene Gammel,Jason Wang Pdf

Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic. The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and struggle—factors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes including coping with the crisis through digital distractions, diary writing, and sounds; the unequal vulnerabilities of gender, ethnicity, and age; the role of visuality and creativity including comics and community theatre; and the hopeful vision for the future through urban placemaking, nighttime sociability, and cinema. The book fills an important scholarly gap, providing foundational knowledge from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic through a consideration of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In doing so, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 expands non-medical COVID-19 studies at the intersection of media and communication studies, cultural criticism, and the pandemic.

Author : Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031509179

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The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb Pdf

Author : Sarah Falcus,Katsura Sako
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208235

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Contemporary Narratives of Dementia by Sarah Falcus,Katsura Sako Pdf

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help us to interrogate the cultural discourse of dementia. Contemporary Narratives of Dementia is a seminal book that offers a sustained examination of a wide range of literary narratives, from auto/biographies and detective fiction, to children’s books and comic books. With its wide-reaching theoretical and critical scope, its comparative dimension, and its inclusion of multiple genres, this book is important for scholars engaging with studies of dementia and ageing in diverse disciplines. Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has research interests in contemporary women’s writing, feminism and literary gerontology. She is the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative (DCN) network. Katsura Sako is an Associate Professor of English, at Keio University, Japan. Her main field of research is in post-war/contemporary British literature, and she has particular interests in gender, ageing and illness. She is a member of the steering committee of the DCN network.