Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging
King's College London
Goal
Surveying the extent to which recent memoirs concerned with old age contest Western stereotypes and how far they reinforce them. How can social innovation help redress institutionally ingrained patterns? And how might Western society use memoir more effectively to engage with the realities of old age?
Members
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Neil Vickers, PhD
Principal Investigator / Contact
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Maria Vaccarella, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Martina Zimmermann, PhD, PhD
Co-Investigator
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Brian Hurwitz, MD
Surveying the extent to which recent memoirs concerned with old age contest Western stereotypes and how far they reinforce them. How can social innovation help redress institutionally ingrained patterns? And how might Western society use memoir more effectively to engage with the realities of old age?
Reference added by SOF-Heyman Center to Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging | 5 Apr 2016
What Does It Mean to Grow Old, 2012-8-1; Duke University Press DOI: 10.1215/9780822399544
Link added by SOF-Heyman Center to Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging | 5 Apr 2016
Crawford, Paul, B. Brown, C. Baker, V. Tischler, and B. Abrams. Practice-based evidence: Delivering humanities into healthcare, Ch. 7 in Health Humanities, pp. 120-136. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf 4.6MB)
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Open Questions: Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging
To what extent do recent memoirs of old age engage with the unknownness of old age? How might Western society use memoir more effectively to engage with the realities of old age? How might the resources of illness narrative scholarship give point to the critique of memoirs on old age? Do popular writings about old age -- such as John Bayley’s three memoirs of Iris Murdoch and the coverage in Britain of Terry Pratchett’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease -- represent a positive and ...
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Project Summary: Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging
The KCL section of the CHCI ageing project will be based at the Centre for the Humanities and Health. The research team, led by Principal Investigator Neil Vickers, and Co-Investigator Brian Hurwitz, and Dr Maria Vaccarella (postdoctoral researcher) will explore two questions: first, to what extent do recent memoirs of old age engage with the unknownness of old age? And second: how might the resources of illness narrative scholarship give point to the critique of memoirs on old age? ...