Never say die : the myth and marketing of the new old age /
From the author of the bestselling The Age of American Unreason comes this critique of the myth that a radically new old age, unmarred by physical and mental infirmity, financial problems, or loneliness, awaits the baby-boom generation. In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Never say old
- Youth culture: an American tradition
- Boomer beginnings and age-defying denial
- Miracles of modern medicine and other half-truths
- A mind is a terrible thing to lose
- Women: eventually the only sex
- Greedy geezers and other half-truths
- The "wisdom of old age"
- Endings
- The ethics of longevity: an argument in search of facts
- Necessary bedfellows: bridges between generations, old-age autonomy.
