Localizing senility: Illness and agency among older Japanese

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-98

  Traphagan, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's Disease; Ethnomedicine; Japan; Senile dementia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005248187     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006566300463     Document Type: Article

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