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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life - Paperback

by Louise Aronson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Louise AronsonPublish date:2021-03-02Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781620405475ISBN-10:1620405474UPC:9781620405475Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Gerontology, GeriatricsSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCTSZ31SGD

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award
Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award

The New York Times bestseller from physician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson--an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life, as revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.

For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.

Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.

Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781620405475ISBN-10:1620405474UPC:9781620405475Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, MedicalBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Gerontology, GeriatricsSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCTSZ31SGD
Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, is a leading geriatrician, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year Award, the American Geriatrics Society Clinician of the Year Award, and was named one of Next Avenue's 2019 Influencers in Aging. She is the author of A History of the Present Illness and her articles and stories have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and The Atlantic. She lives in San Francisco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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