Cancer in the lives of older Americans : blessings and battles /

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Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and educatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kagan, Sarah H. (Sarah Hope)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Colección:EBL-Schweitzer
Temas:
Cancer > United States > Psychological aspects.
Geriatric oncology > United States.
Older people > Diseases > United States.
Older people.
Neoplasms > psychology
Aged
Social Isolation > psychology
Aged, 80 and over
Cancer > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Cancérologie gériatrique > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées.
elderly.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Oncology & Cancer.
Older people
Cancer > Psychological aspects
Geriatric oncology
Older people > Diseases
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : finding my way
  • Champagne and hot dogs
  • Being old, having cancer
  • Paradox : cancer and aging in America
  • Scientific import and influence
  • Language lessons
  • Aesthetics of being and having
  • Epilogue : not a denial of the fact of death, a denial of death now.

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