What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the HumanitiesThomas R. Cole Duke University Press, 1987 - 316 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age | 9 |
The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly William F May | 41 |
The Meaning of Risk Rights and Responsibility | 63 |
Current Issues | 99 |
Victorian Morality in a New Key Thomas R Cole | 115 |
Literature | 131 |
The Wizard of Pilgrimage or What Color | 163 |
The Meaning of Health Care in Old Age | 179 |
Neighborhood Communality | 199 |
The Dialectic | 235 |
A Select Bibliography | 255 |
Contributors | 275 |
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Achenbaum ageism Alasdair MacIntyre American autobiography become benefits body Butler Cain Cole concept course cultural death dependency disease Dorothy economic elderly Erik Erikson Erikson essay ethics existence existential existentialist experience fact Fliszek frail frailty Gadow Geriatric gerontology Glinda growing old human Ibid ideology individual institutions integrity Krapp's Last Tape literary living meaning of old ment modern moral mother myth narrative neighborhood neighbors numbers object old age older one's Oz books past patient person perspective philosophical physical policymakers political problem professional protection psychological question of meaning reality reminiscence responsibility retirement risks Robert Nozick Ronald Blythe routine Scott-Maxwell Simone de Beauvoir sixty-five social insurance Social Security society span development spiritual T. S. Eliot tion tive traditional transcendence understanding University Press values vigorous virtue Wilcher Winter wisdom Wizard of Oz York