Cognitive Aging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognitive Aging write by Denise Park. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Cognitive Aging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As our society ages, the topic of cognitive aging is becoming increasingly important. This volume provides an accessible overview of how the cognitive system changes as a function of normal aging. Building on the successful first edition, this volume provide an even more comprehensive coverage of the major issues affecting memory, attention, language, speech and other aspects of cognitive functioning. The essential chapters from the first edition have been thoroughly revised and updated and new chapters have been introduced which draw in neuroscience studies and more applied topics. In addition, contributors were encouraged to ensure their chapters are accessible to students studying the topic for the first time. This therefore makes the volume appealing as a textbook on senior undergraduate and graduate courses.
Mistaken Identity
Mistaken Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mistaken Identity write by Asad Haider. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Mistaken Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure. Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, theoretical exegesis, and protest reportage, Mistaken Identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind chauvinism and “the ideology of race.”
Identity in a Secular Age
Identity in a Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity in a Secular Age write by Fern Elsdon-Baker. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Identity in a Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought. They consider a far more complex, multifaceted, and distinctly more interesting picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews—including atheistic, agnostic, and faith groups—relate to and form the ongoing narrative of a necessary clash between evolution and faith. By ascribing agency to the public, from the nineteenth century to the present and across Canada and the United Kingdom, this volume offers a much more nuanced analysis of people’s perceptions about the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief, one that better elucidates the complexities not only of that relationship but of actual lived experience.
Aging and Identity
Aging and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aging and Identity write by Sara M. Deats. This book was released on 1999-04-30. Aging and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age write by Higgs, Paul. This book was released on 2016-10-05. Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, abjection and ‘othering’. It then applies this analysis to issues of care. Exploring our collective hopes and fears concerning old age and the ends of people’s lives, this is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.
