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Philosophical foundations of gerontology
- Title
- Philosophical foundations of gerontology / Patrick L. McKee, editor.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Human Sciences Press, c1982.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McKee, Patrick L.
- Description
- x, 352 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- On the types of human character / Aristotle -- The Vedic ideal / Manu -- On old age / Cicero -- On age / Montaigne -- The myth of the cave / Plato -- Death and aging in technopolis / Edmund Byrne -- On growing old gracefully / Lin Yutang -- The book of filial piety / Confucius -- The ethics of providing for the economic well-being of the aging / B.J. Diggs -- Extension of the life span / James L. Goddard -- Extension of the active life / James M. Gustafson -- Socrates and Cephalus / Plato -- The ages of life / Arthur Schopenhauer -- The life review / Robert N. Butler -- Aging, catastrophe, and moral reasoning / John B. Orr -- Toward a stage theory of adult cognitive development / K. Warner Schaie -- The coming of age / Simone de Beauvoir -- The phenomenological approach to images of aging / Michel Philibert -- Age changes and age differences / K. Warner Schaie -- Two theories of aging / Elaine Cumming and William Henry.
- Call Number
- JFD 82-1861
- ISBN
- 0898850401
- 089885041X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 81002922
- OCLC
- 7462567
- NYPG82-B27989
- Title
- Philosophical foundations of gerontology / Patrick L. McKee, editor.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Human Sciences Press, c1982.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Added Author
- McKee, Patrick L.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 82-1861