Title | Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change [electronic resource] / edited by David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, Serge Gauthier, George F. Tomossy |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0677-3 |
Descript | XVI, 256 p. online resource |
Paradigms -- Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective -- Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics -- Health in the โgreyโ millennium: Romanticism versus complexity? -- Social Responses -- Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the โmutualityโ of state and civil society? -- Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation -- Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law -- Finding the elder voice in social legislation -- European social policy for the elderly -- Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue -- Cultural Dimensions -- Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying -- Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity -- Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research -- Reflections -- The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue -- Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share