No Aging in India : Modernity, Senility and the Family/Lawrence Cohen. 1999, xxv, 367 p., ISBN 019564895-1.
Contents: Introduction. Dulari. 1. Orientations. World Wide Web. 2. Alzheimer's hell. Nuns and Doctors. 3. Knowledge, practice, and the bad family. Aitasa Pralapa. 4. Memory banks. Meri Lata Mahan. The anger of the Rishis. The Philosopher's Mother. 6. The maladjustment of the bourgeoisie. The Way to the Indies, to the Fountain of Youth. 7. Chapati bodies. A Child is Being Lifted. 8. Dog ladies and the Beriya Baba. The Age of the Anthropologist. 9. The body in time. A Last Few Trips up the River. Notes. Glossary. References. Index.
"in this award-winning book, Lawrence Cohen brings together insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and contemporary cultural studies, to examine the meaning of 'bodies in time'. He draws on extensive research with families in Varanasi (Banaras), and examples from Indian cinema, advertising and popular medicine, to examine the repercussions of international gerontology and the marketing of drugs on old people, their families and wider social norms in India.
"No Aging in India takes us from a study of aging to the idea of 'age' iself. For anyone interested in cultural politics, sociology or medical anthropology in India, this is a path-breaking work." (jacket)
[Lawrence Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.]