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

doi:10.1215/9780822399544

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

Edited by

Duke University Press

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399544

ISBN electronic:

978-0-8223-9954-4

Publication date:

1986

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.

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

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