Taming Oblivion

Taming OblivionExamines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. 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

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