What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities

Media type: E-Book

Title: What Does It Mean to Grow Old? : Reflections from the Humanities

Contributor: Christine K., Cassel [Contributor]; Cole, Thomas R [Editor]; David W., Plath [Contributor]; Gadow, Sally [Editor]; Harry R., Moody [Contributor]; Kathleen, Woodward [Contributor]; Natalie, Rosel [Contributor]; Robert A., Burt [Contributor]; Ronald A., Carson [Contributor]; Sally A., Gadow [Contributor]; Sally, Gadow [Contributor]; Thomas R., Cole [Contributor]; W. Andrew, Achenbaum [Contributor]; William F., May [Contributor]

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, [1986]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (316 p)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822399544

ISBN: 9780822399544

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Keywords: Old age United States ; Older people United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One -- The Tattered Web of Cultural Meanings -- The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age -- The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly -- The Meaning of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility in Aging America -- Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends -- Victorian Morality in a New Key -- Part Two -- Subjectivity: Literature, Imagination, and Frailty -- Introduction -- Reminiscence and the Life Review: Prospects and Retrospects -- The Wizard of Pilgrimage, or What Color Is Our Brick Road? -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Frailty and Strength: The Dialectic of Aging -- Appendix: A Select Bibliography of Aging and Meaning -- Aging and Meaning: A Bibliographical Essay -- A Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index

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 their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard

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