More-than-Human Aging

Foreword: A Book to Think and Become With
JAY SOKOLOVSKY
Introduction: Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship
CRISTINA DOUGLAS AND ANDREW WHITEHOUSE
Part I Humans Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship
1 Caring Canines: Images of "Home" in Continuing Care
ARDRA COLE AND SUSAN MACLEOD
2 Becoming Old with a Dog: Human-Animal Entanglements in Later-Life Transitions
NETE SCHWENNESEN AND DANIEL LOPEZ GOMEZ
3 Of Dogs, Humans, and Lives Worth Living: Thinking with Dogs about Later Life, Living with Dementia, and More-Than-Human Companionship
CRISTINA DOUGL AS
4 Aging with Companion Animals: More-Than-Human Agency, Digital and Sensory Intimacies, and Care
INGRID RICHARDSON AND LARISSA HJORTH
5 Baby Seals and Armless Robots: Is This What Care in Later Life Is Made Of?
CATHRINE DEGNEN AND KATIE BRITTAIN
6 How to Be a Good Robot? Human-Nonhuman Play in Dementia Care
RUUD HENDRIKS AND IKE KAMPHOF
Part II Other-Than-Humans Aging in Human Companionship
7 The Invisibility of the Aging Laboratory Animal
LESLEY A . SHARP
8 Then There Were 3, 2, 1, 0: Grieving with and for a Murine Family
SAMANTHA HURN
9 Posthuman Professionalism: Interspecies Entanglements and Clinical End of Life Care
VANESSA ASHALL, JOANNA L AT IMER, AND CARRIE FRIESE
Afterword: On Old Human and Other Animal Characters
SUSAN McHUGH
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index

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• Animais e sociedade
• Interacção homem-computador
• Grupos etários: idosos
• Doença e dependência: aspectos sociais
• Antropologia social e cultural

health; wellness; anthropology; medical anthropology; aging; elderly; public health; policy; medicine; health policy; old age; companionship; disease; disability; loneliness; pets; dogs; cats; animals