Sally Thomason's research and reflection on aging disclose the scientific and medical oversights and cultural biases that inform our attitudes toward aging. Based on the personal experiences and stories of dozens of women interviewed, Thomason proposes strong, new, holistic perspectives that can overcome our cultural misconceptions and animate personal, medical, and religious work by and with the aging.
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Sally Palmer Thomason is former Dean of the Meeman Center for Special Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She has written both popular and scholarly articles on aging and presented workshops to medical, church, and lay groups.
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Fascinating,
By Eaglemom (TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Living Spirit of the Crone: Turning Aging Inside Out (Theology and the Sciences) (Theology & the Sciences) (Paperback)
This is a fascinating and exciting book - part history, part anthropology, some science, some medicine, part phychology and philosophy and theology - but principally it is a call to optimism, a call for us to realize that we are never finished but perpetually created, and for us to live fully, to fully live. A must read for the over 60 set!
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Nice to read a good, well written, informative and inspiring book on women and aging.
Pamela D. Blair, Author, The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond
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HIghly Readable Long Interviews Offer Insights into Aging,
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This review is from: The Living Spirit of the Crone: Turning Aging Inside Out (Theology and the Sciences) (Theology & the Sciences) (Paperback)
Author Sally Palmer Thomason suggests that aging is an opportunity for writing a new script for your life.She uses the long interview format to provide examples of how other older women have done exactly that. I support Thomason's position that aging is not a disease that needs to be treated. The reason that I have given this four stars, instead of five, is that I do a lot of reading about women and aging, achieving wholeness, and Jungian theory. Much of this book was well-known to me, but it is a good starting place if you are beginning to delve into this material. I have longer comments about this book at a http://ordinaryordinary.blogspot.com/2011/06/wise-crone-archetype-is-depicted-in.html
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- The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (Canto original series) by Thomas R. Cole on 4 pages
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry by Paul Starr on page 61, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Forces and Aging by Robert C. Atchley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B. Morris on page 68, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Collected Works of C.G. Jung: General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Vol 19) by C.G. Jung in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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