Reframing aging [electronic resource] : insights from biology and culture of midlife Japanese / Melissa K. Melby.

Erişim Adresi
Taylor & Francis Link
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ISBN
9781040399118 (electronic bk.)
1040399118 (electronic bk.)
9781003644521 (electronic bk.)
100364452X (electronic bk.)
9781040399071 (electronic bk. : PDF)
104039907X (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032328584
1032328584
9781041082453
1041082452
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
New York, NY : Routledge, 2026.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
New biological anthropology
Özet, vb.
How do we age? Why do we age? How and why does menopause happen? Do different cultures have different approaches and attitudes to, and experiences of, aging and menopause? Reframing Aging: Insights from Biology and Culture of Midlife Japanese uses a biocultural framework to try to answer these questions, and gain insights on aging and menopause in Japan, the United States, and beyond.Drawing on years of fieldwork and lab work in Japan, and over a decade of living and working in Japan at several universities and the National Institute of Health and Nutrition, with followup interviews spanning over 20 years, Melissa Melby challenges what are often considered "normal" experiences of aging and menopause. This book introduces a proximateultimate biocultural framework to guide the reader through questions of how (proximate) and why (ultimate) we age, and experience menopause, as we do. Drawing insights from evolutionary biology and societallevel phenomena, and the language of lived experience, it explores how crosscultural variation in expectations, medicalization, collectivism, lifestyles, and other factors may influence how symptoms of aging and menopause are perceived, experienced, and treated.Reframing Aging: Insights from Biology and Culture of Midlife Japanese offers new approaches and insightful perspectives for students of biological/cultural/medical anthropology, gerontology, Asian studies, women and gender studies, medicine, and public health.
Konu
Aging __ Japan __ Physiological aspects.
Aging __ Japan __ Psychological aspects.
Menopause __ Japan __ Physiological aspects.
Menopause __ Japan __ Psychological aspects.
Middle-aged women __ Health and hygiene __ Japan.
Middle-aged women __ Japan __ Psychology.
Self-care, Health __ Age factors __ Japan.
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