Understanding the Human Aging Body - A Critical Exegesis

This article critically engages with the importance of the aging body as applied to understanding both the praxis of aging studies. We begin our journey by looking at the disciplinary dominance of bio-medical models in understanding bodily change through later life. The paper then movesits analysis to the relative absence of theoretical models within aging studies that have attempted to analyse social explanations of the body. The paper critically questions the notion of the aging body and attempts to link its understanding to authentic epistemological insights deriving from wider contemporary social theory.

Keywords: Aging, Human Body, Bio-medicine, theory, social explanatory models.