Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

by Nortin M. Hadler and M.D. Hadler, Nortin M.

Book Overview

For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807835064
• ISBN13: 9780807835067
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"