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- W2527747846 abstract "The criticism of industrial society has led many researchers to idealize a past golden age in which old people enjoyed a privileged status. But these theories do not stand up to analysis. Through a study of 19th century literary works, legal texts and medical reviews, the author retraces the emergence of the elderly as a social group. Old people in literature, depicted as symbols of temperance and wisdom or as objects of derision, have an ambiguous image. While their personal image appears to improve, their social interest declines. At the end of the 19th century, they feature strongly in literature. The old buffoon of the 17th century is replaced by Victor Hugo’s venerated grandfather. However, these idealized images refer solely to the rich and cultivated. The old women and the elderly poor are still depicted in a pathetic light. In medicine, the first studies of old people, devoted to destitute old women, contributed largely to the generalization of these stereotypes. Hysteria, mental and nervous illnesses formed the basis of medical studies on old people until the mid 19th century. It was not until the early 20th century that they were treated as patients like any other and that the specific discipline of geriatrics first emerged. In law, no specific status was attributed to old people by the Civil Code. They were seen as ordinary citizens. Only senility, along with other forms of dementia, provided a justification for placing an old person under guardianship. However, authorization to intern demented individuals (and senile old people) was not repealed until 1838. Progressively, the Penal Code began to grant specific protection to old people and to shorten prison sentences for elderly convicts. However, these changes in the representation of old people did not put an end to the traditional dichotomy between old age/wisdom and old age/decrepitude. At the dawn of the 20th century, an old person is no longer defined by his age but by his mental state." @default.
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- W2527747846 title "Old Age in Literature, Medicine, and Law in the 19th Century: The Sociogenesis of a New Age of Life" @default.
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