Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction IX
4. 1. Aging and Death in Contemporary Society: Myths and Realities
5. Biomedical Aspects of Aging 3 3
6. Human Values, Economic Values, and the Elderly 11
7. Reflections on Dr. Borg's Life Cycle 29
8. Exit and Existence: Society's Unwritten Script for Old Age and Death 69
9. 2. Aging and Death in the Past: Attitudes and Behavior
10. The Traditional English Family and the Aged in Our Society 97
11. Old Age In Early New England 115
12. The Last Stage: Historical Adulthood and Old Age 165
13. 3. Aging and Death As Universal Experience: Literary and Artistic Perceptions
14. Portrait of the Artist as an Old 'Man 193
15. The Parents' Last Lessons 215
16. Eros and Thanatos: Old Age in Love 235
17. Albert Berne and the Completion of Being: Images of Vitality and Extinction in the Last Paintings of a Ninety-Six-year-Old Man 255
18. Contributors 291