The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy,…

- Margaret M. Lock

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduct…

- Margaret M. Lock

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dis…

- Margaret M. Lock

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

- Margaret M. Lock

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious politica…

- Margaret M. Lock