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Old Age in English History
Language: en
Pages: 548
Authors: Pat Thane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the nex
A History of Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Pat Thane
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts
History of Suicide
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Georges Minois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-19 - Publisher:

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Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history--the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right t
Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Christopher Martin
Categories: Aging in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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"Explores the representation of old age in Elizabethan England."--BLACKWELL'S.
History of Old Age
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Georges Minois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-11-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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History of Old Age is the first major study of the ways in which old age has been perceived in western culture throughout history. Georges Minois paints a vast