No Aging in India: Modernity, Senility and the Family

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.