Galkin K.A. Mark Schweda, Michael Coors, and Claudia Bozzaro, eds. Aging and Human Nature: Perspectives from Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Anthropology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. 12, 2 (Sep. 2020), 224-227. DOI:https: ...

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Abstract

Modern research on aging can be viewed as a competition between two different optics: gerontological, which considers age in terms of biological determinants (well-being, health, physiological processes), and socio-constructivist, in which age is viewed as a construct created by societies and cultures characteristic of data. societies (Katz and Calasanti 2015; Rubinstein and de Medeiros 2015). The competition of such opticians has created multiple ramifications, since the biological concept of age is characterized by an understanding of aging in terms of the body and bodily problems, as well as the interactions of material objects and people (Grigorieva 2018; Aldwin et al. 2017; Hoppner and Urban 2019). The socio-constructivist approach has in part become the foundation of critical gerontology and many other studies of aging, where an important starting point is the demonstration of how age stereotypes are constructed in different countries (Laz 1998; Martinson and Berridge 2015). The key problem hiding behind the theoretical constructions and conceptualization of age and characteristic of both approaches is the problem of determining age as it is. Both approaches work with age as a homogeneous entity. Aging and Human Nature: Perspectives from Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Anthropology, a collection edited by Mark Shveda, Michael Kors and Claudia Bozzaro, is intended to outline conceptual lines in the search for the meanings of age from the point of view of different perspectives. The authors and compilers of the publication are specialists in the field of medical ethics, theological ethics, philosophy and bioethics from various universities in Europe and North America. All of them are engaged in philosophical, bioethical and sociocultural research on aging.

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