Never say die : the myth and marketing of the new old age / Susan Jacoby.
In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity--pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of aging.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307377944
- ISBN: 0307377946
- Physical Description: xiii, 332 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Never say old -- Youth culture : an american tradition -- Boomers : 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. |
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Subject: | Old age > United States. Aging > United States. Older people > United States. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HQ 1064 .U5 J336 2011 | 30542290 | General Collection | Available | - |
Never Say Die : The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
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Author Notes
Never Say Die : The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
Susan Jacoby began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Her first book, Moscow Conversations, was based on the articles she contributed to the Post from Moscow between 1969 and 1971. Her other books include Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, The Possible She, Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, The Age of American Unreason, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. (Bowker Author Biography)