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The Traditional English Family and the Aged in Our Society

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  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
Aging, Death, and the Completion of Being
This chapter is in the book Aging, Death, and the Completion of Being
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512808346-006

Chapters in this book

  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
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