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What does it mean to grow old? : reflections from the humanities /
In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline--gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law--and asked to speak the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tattered web of cultural meanings
- Meaning of life and the meaning of old age / Harry R. Moody
- Virtues and vices of the elderly / William F. May
- Meaning of risk, rights, and responsibility in aging America / W. Andrew Achenbaum
- Legal reform and aging : current issues, troubling trends / Robert A. Burt
- "Enlightened" view of aging : Victorian morality in a new key / Thomas R. Cole
- Reminiscence and the life review : prospects and retrospects / Kathleen Woodward
- Wizard of pilgrimage, or what color is our brick road? / David Plath
- Meaning of health care in old age / Christine K. Cassel
- Growing old together : neighborhood communality among the elderly / Natalie Rosel
- Frailty and strength : the dialectic of aging / Sally Gadow
- Aging and meaning : a bibliographical essay / Harry R. Moody & Thomas R. Cole.