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Aging, self and community : a collection of readings / edited by Jaber F. Gubrium, Kathy Charmaz.
- Title
- Aging, self and community : a collection of readings / edited by Jaber F. Gubrium, Kathy Charmaz.
- Publication
- Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, c1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ1061 .A4836 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 293 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. The Life Course -- "Course" versus "Cycle": On the Understanding of Understanding Aging / Haim Hazan -- The Discourse of Age in Involuntary Commitment Proceedings / James A. Holstein -- Human Action and Its Place in Theories of Aging / Dale Dannefer -- II. Self -- The Significance of Personal Objects to Older People / Robert L. Rubinstein -- Illness, Biography, and the Interpretation of Self Following a Stroke / Sharon Kaufman -- Culture in the Use, Care, and Control of the Aging Body / Catherine Hagan Hennessy -- Professionals Beyond Midlife: Some Observations on Work Satisfaction in the Fifty- to Sixty-Year Decade / David A. Karp -- III. Caregiving -- Caregiving: The Impact on Emotional Support for Single Women / Cynthia S. Burnley -- Measurement and the Interpretation of Burden in the Alzheimer's Disease Experience / Jaber F. Gubrium and Robert J. Lynott -- Dependence, Interdependence, and Reciprocity after Eighty / G. Claire Wenger -- The Burdens of Parent Care: A Critical Review of Recent Findings / Sarah Matthews -- The Ambiguities of Social Support: Adult Daughters Caring for Frail Elderly Parents / Emily Abel -- IV. Communities -- Moving Beyond Familism: Potential Contributions of Gerontological Theory to Studies of Chicano/Latino Aging / Steven P. Wallace and Elisa Linda Facio -- "That's What It's All About": Old People's Organizations as a Context for Aging / Dorothy Jerrome -- A Wheelchair Society: The Nursing Home Scene / Janice A. Smithers -- V. Policy
- Vulnerability in Old Age: The Issue of Dependence in American Society / Melissa A. Hardy -- Aging Is a Woman's Problem: Issues Faced by the Female Elderly Population / Laura Katz Olson -- Social Security and Support of the Elderly: The Western Experience / John Myles.
- ISBN
- 1559385529
- LCCN
- gb^93049149^
- OCLC
- 27044486
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library