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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. Leader at Last -- 1. Launching a Movement -- 2. Blackout in Houston -- 3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line -- 4. "I Was Going Places" -- Part II. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine -- 5. Uphome -- 6. Rabbit Returns -- 7. Driving Mr. Gus -- Part III. Wandering and Return -- 8. "They Got Me, But They Can't Forget Me": A Mad Odyssey -- 9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves -- Appendix. Interview Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

We live in a time of change, a new era where old men can aspire to maintain health as well as maintain dignity and fulfillment in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see these possibilities for themselves and their loved ones. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom as he encounters twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world's most famous heart surgeon. In these and other intimate conversations, the book explores and honors the particular way that each man faces the universal challenges of living a good old age.

A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the "third age" to critical perspectives on institutional adaptations to an aging society, this book presents a wide range of provocative thought

Contemporary society seldom associates creativity with people in later adult years. We challenge that perception. A continuum of creative programs defined here shows promise for eliciting late life creativeness offering elders in the community, in residential settings, in adult day care, and in home care new avenues for expression. Life story writing and sharing groups, Visible Lives storyboards, and TimeSlips© storytelling method for patients with dementia equip caregivers with new tools to nourish creativity in all elders. Evidence suggests that stimulating creativity in elders at all levels of functioning improves health outcomes. This article introduces programs designed to engage, encourage, and inspire elders regardless of functionality. All three related but discreet interventions share core components of listening with intention, utilizing positive affirmation, and facilitating sharing in community as participants develop surprising new capabilities. Health care providers, community volunteers, and family members can develop skills and techniques to implement any of the programs described. Fostering creative expression through cognitive exercise and imagination among those in later years may forestall dementias, improve quality of life for elders and their caregivers, and meet unmet personal and societal needs. These programs demonstrate the possibility of growth and creative potential at every stage in life, including the latest years, even for those with dementias.

"Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet often elided work of age activists; and, finally, the challenges posed by AI and, more generally, transhumanism in the context of caring for an ageing population. Drawing on work from across the humanities - philosophy, fine arts, religion, and literature, this book will be a useful supplemental text for courses on age studies, sociology and gerontology at both undergraduate and graduate levels"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Too Long Too Short / Vonnegut, Mark -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities / Friedman, Lester D. / Wear, Delese / Jones, Therese -- Part I. Disease And Illness -- Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice / Frank, Arthur W. -- Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works / Soricelli, Rhonda L. / Flood, David H. -- Chapter 3. "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons / Keränen, Lisa -- Chapter 4. My Quest For Health / Wall, Shelley / Sappol, Michael -- Part II. Disability -- Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories / Holmes, Martha Stoddard -- Chapter 6. Music And Disability / Straus, Joseph N. -- Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History / Norden, Martin F. -- Chapter 8. Standout / Iezzoni, Lisa I. -- Part III. Death And Dying -- Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life / Cohn, Felicia -- Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis / Lantos, John / Montello, Martha -- Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary / Haddad, Amy -- Part IV. Patient- Professional Relationships -- Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship / Garden, Rebecca -- Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home / Hester, Rebecca / Brody, Howard / Clark, Mark -- Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine / Coulehan, Jack -- Part V. The Body -- Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body / Tong, Rosemarie -- Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain / Gilman, Sander L. -- Chapter 17. Public Fetuses / Hausman, Bernice L. -- Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies / Case, Gretchen A. -- Part VI. Gender And Sexuality -- Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form / Peterkin, Allan -- Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag / Dreger, Alice -- Chapter 21. "I Always Prefer The Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine / Levine-Clark, Marjorie -- Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education / Squier, Susan M. -- Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine / Campo, Rafael -- Part VII. Race And Class -- Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice / DasGupta, Sayantani -- Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health / Metzl, Jonathan M. -- Chapter 26. Law'S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health / Goldberg, Daniel -- Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls / Grainger-Monsen, Maren -- Part VIII. Aging -- Chapter 28. "Old Age Isn'T A Battle, It'S A Massacre": Reading Philip Roth'S Everyman / Saxton, Benjamin / Cole, Thomas R. -- Chapter 29. "Do You Remember Me?" Constructions Of Alzheimer'S Disease In Literature And Film / Kaplan, E. Ann -- Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia / Winakur, Jerald -- Part IX. Mental Illness -- Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities / Lewis, Brad -- Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness / Jones, Anne Hudson -- Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities / Rowe, Michael -- Chapter 34. Culpability / Williams, Ian -- Part X. Spirituality And Religion -- Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics / Chambers, Tod -- Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion / Selman, Lucy / Barfield, Raymond C. -- Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman / Bishop, Jeffrey P. -- Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary / Shafer, Audrey -- Part XI. Science And Technology -- Chapter 39. Andromeda'S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art / Belling, Catherine -- Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein / Wolpe, Paul Root -- Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics / Kavey, Allison B. -- Chapter 42. Calcedonies / Nisker, Jeff -- Part XII. Health Professions Education -- Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities / Aultman, Julie M. -- Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom / Lamb, Erin Gentry / Blackie, Michael -- Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance / Bleakley, Alan -- Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes / Baruch, Jay -- References -- Notes On Contributors -- Index