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Cancer in the lives of older Americans : blessings and battles /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kagan, Sarah H. (Sarah Hope)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Social Isolation > psychology > United States.
Aged > United States.
Neoplasms > psychology > United States.
Older people > Diseases > United States.
Cancer > Psychological aspects > United States.
Geriatric oncology > United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : finding my way
  • Champagne and hot dogs
  • Being old, having cancer
  • Paradox : cancer and aging in America
  • Scientific import and influence
  • Language lessons
  • Aesthetics of being and having
  • Epilogue : not a denial of the fact of death, a denial of death now.