Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan [Russian]

by John Traphagan

Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists known as boke. Although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of senile dementia, boke is distinguished from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Russian
• ISBN: B0CKBJQBYL
• ISBN13: 9798887190969
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"