Valuing older people : A humanist approach to ageing / / ed. by Ricca Edmondson .

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456963103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-4473-0417-9; 1-282-50165-8; 9786612501654; 1-84742-293-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Ageing and the lifecourse
• Disciplina: 305.26
• Soggetti: Old age; Older people; Altern; Alter; Älterer Mensch; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Valuing Older People; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Religious belonging and spiritual questioning: a Western European perspective on ageing and religion; 2. Spirituality: a means for achieving integration in personal and community spheres in an ageing Singapore; 3. Integrating the sacred in creative ageing; 4. Atheist convictions, Christian beliefs or 'keeping things open'? Patterns of world views among three generations in East German families; 5. Beyond dialogue: entering the fourth space in old age; 6. The long road to a moralisation of old age7. How to balance generations: solidarity dilemmas in a European perspective; 8. Pension systems and the challenge of population ageing: what does the public think?; 9. Ethos of care and environment in long-stay care settings: impacts on residents' lives; 10. Engineering substantially prolonged ; human lifespans: biotechnological enhancement and ethics; 11. Wisdom: a humanist approach to valuing older people; 12. Social practices, moral frameworks and religious values in the lives of older people; 13. 'Woo-hoo, what a ride!' Older people, life stories and active ageing14. Does eldership mean anything in the contemporary West?; 15. Talk about old age, health and morality; 16. Exploring positive images of ageing: the production of calendars; 17. Gateways to humanistic gerontology; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach this book argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a humanistic vision of older people and ageing.

American individualism / / by Herbert Hoover ; with an introduction by George H. Nash

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798867903321
• Autore: Hoover Herbert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 0-8179-2017-X; 0-8179-2016-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (101 pages)
• Collana: Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; number 675
• Disciplina: 302.54
• Soggetti: Individualism; Liberalism - United States - History; Liberty; Collectivism; Constitutional history - United States; United States Social conditions 1918-1932; United States Economic policy 1933-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: American individualism -- Philosophic grounds -- Spiritual phases -- Economic phases -- Political phases -- The future.
• Sommario/riassunto: In late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distill from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argued that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character. American Individualism asserts that equal opportunity for individuals to develop their abilities is "the sole source of progress" and the fundamental impulse behind American civilization for three, now four, centuries. More than ninety years have passed since this book was first published; it is clear, in retrospect, that the volume was partly motivated by the political controversies of the time. But American Individualism is not simply a product of a dim and receding past. To a considerable degree the ideological battles of Hoover's era are the battles of our own, and the interpretations we make of our past, particularly the years between 1921 and 1933, will mold our perspective on the crises of the present.