Aging, Death, and the Completion of Being / / David D. Van Tassel.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Biomedical Aspects of Aging 3
  • Human Values, Economic Values, and the Elderly
  • Reflections on Dr. Borg's Life Cycle
  • Exit and Existence: Society's Unwritten Script for Old Age and Death
  • The Traditional English Family and the Aged in Our Society
  • Old Age In Early New England
  • The Last Stage: Historical Adulthood and Old Age
  • Portrait of the Artist as an Old 'Man
  • The Parents' Last Lessons
  • Eros and Thanatos: Old Age in Love
  • Albert Berne and the Completion of Being: Images of Vitality and Extinction in the Last Paintings of a Ninety-Six-year-Old Man
  • Contributors