Article ID: CBB000932869

Da velhice à terceira idade: o percurso histórico das identidades atreladas ao processo de envelhecimento (2008)

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Silva, Luna Rodrigues Freitas (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 15
Pages: 155--168


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Article also in English. English title: [From Old Age to Third Age: The Historical Course of the Identities Linked to the Process of Aging]
Language: Portuguese

This article discusses the historical emergence of notions of old age and third age as identity categories linked to the process of ageing. Their emergence can be understood as a result of a complex combination of factors such as medical and social knowledge, management agents, political movements and economic interests. By taking old age and third age as historically determined age identities, we seek to trace out the formation of these identities the article analizes the factors that determined their emergence and how they have grown and gained legitimacy. As an age category, 'old age' has its roots mainly in medical knowledge specialized in the study of the aged body, and the appearance of retirement. The 'third age' age category derives mainly from the specialization of the agents of management for ageing, the advocatory discourse of social gerontology and the interests of the consumer culture. These are the categories that are currently available to identify, define and, more recently, transform the process of contemporary ageing.

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Authors & Contributors
Park, Hyung Wook
Moreira, Tiago
Fangerau, Heiner
Brad Bolman
James Rupert Fletcher
Giulia Cavaliere
Concepts
Aging
Gerontology
Medicine
Medicine and society
Public health
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Early modern
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
United Kingdom
South Asia
Romania
Germany
Africa
Institutions
University of California, Davis. School of Veterinary Medicine. Radiobiology Laboratory
Baltimore City Hospitals
Habsburg, House of
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Rockefeller Foundation
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